In my first encounter with existential nihilism, I thought it was a pretty depressing outlook. If life has no inherent meaning, I thought that meant that life would be pointless and we should all curl ...

The big thinkers at Aperture compare existentialism, absurdism, and nihilism as philosophical approaches. Hurricane Isaias takes aim at Florida Panhandle, now category 3 storm The early warning signs ...

I'm interested in three modern philosophies that overlap a lot: Existentialism, Nihilism, and Absurdism. I could be wrong here, but it seems they all start with the same idea--life doesn't have any ...

Legendary comedian Norm Macdonald, chronicling his longstanding addiction to gambling in his autobiography, recounted in it a moment in which his psychiatrist interpreted his fixation on gambling as a ...

One out of every three Americans (32%) is having an “existential crisis.” So says Talker Research as reported by Study Finds. I didn’t realize that Americans were so conversant with the philosophy of ...

You worked for this. Years of school. Sacrifices. Late nights. You told yourself that once you arrived—once you got the degree, the job, the house, the partner—it would feel different. And then you ...