Criticism of nihilistic approaches according to Thaddeus Metz based on Islamic thought

Salmani, Hassan

doi:10.22096/rc.2024.2019822.1171

Criticism of nihilistic approaches according to Thaddeus Metz based on Islamic thought

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Hassan Salmani

PhD student in Islamic Theology, Department of Philosophy and Theology, Shahid Motahari University, Tehran, Iran.

10.22096/rc.2024.2019822.1171

Abstract

Nihilism or nothingness is against the meaningfulness of life. Meaningfulness means valuing and valuing, and when it is associated with life, it means valuing and valuing life, and if human life has real positive value and is for his good, it is meaningful.

Philosophically, nihilism is any view that rejects the existence of an objective basis for the human value system. In fact, the main claim of nihilism is that what essentially makes a life meaningful is not attainable for any of us. In Tadeusz Metz's article, published in the Stanford Philosophical Encyclopedia, various nihilistic approaches have been proposed after presenting major views on the meaning of life.In this article, we decided to extract these approaches and after analyzing and explaining each one, we criticized them and provided the necessary answers using the scientific and philosophical views of some philosophers and scientists of the world, especially relying on To present the basics of Islamic thought

Keywords

Nihilism

The meaning of life

objectivity

Moral Values

Subjects

Quranic Sciences and Theology

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The Holy Quran

Akhavan, Mahdi, Seyyed Mahdi keshmiri, and Hamed Merati. “Errors of John Mackie's Error Theory.” Philosophical Meditations 6, no. 16, (2016): 145-171. [In Persian]

AliZamani, Amir Abbas, and Mahdi Ghafoorian. “Moallefehaye zendegiye manadar az didgahe John Katingham.” Journal of Philosophical Investigations, no. 17 (2010): 7-32. [In Persian]

Ayatollahi, Hamidreza. “Explaining the Main Views about the Meaning of Life according to Thaddeus Metz and Evaluating them and a new view about the Meaningful Life.” Philosophy of Religion Studies 11, no. 1 (2023): 1-33. [In Persian]

Benatar D. Better Never to Have Been, the Harm of Coming into Existence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Cottingham, J. On the Meaning of Life. London: Cambridge, 2003.

Fathali, Mahmood. Basirate Akhlaghi. Qom: published by: The Imam Khomeini Education & Research Institute, 2007. [In Persian]

Frankel, Viktor. Man's Search for Meaning. Translated by Nehzat Salehian and Mahin Milani. Tehran: Dorsa, [N.P]. [In Persian]

Hajizadeh, Moslem, Mohsen Jahed, and Sahar Kavandi. “Biologizing Ethics: Analysis and Critique of Edward Wilson's Evolutionary Ethics.” Journal of Bioethics 9, no. 33 (2019): 41-54. [In Persian]

Javadi Amoli, Abdollah. Islam and the environment. Qom: Asra, 2007. [In Persian]

Khoshdel Rohani, Maryam, and Rahim Dehghan Simkani. “The Virtue of Not Being; Reviewing and Criticizing of Benatar’s Approach of Avoiding Ethical Preference of Not Being.” Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, no. 11 (2018): 448-459. [In Persian]

Kitcher, Philip. Vaulting Ambition, Cambridge MA: MIT press, 1985.

Mackie, J.L. Ethics: inventing write and wrong. England: Penguin Books, 1977.

Mesbah Yazdi, Mojtaba. Bonyade Akhlagh. Qom: published by: The Imam Khomeini Education & Research Institute, 2006. [In Persian]

Mesbah Yazdi, Mojtaba. Falsafeye Akhlagh. Qom: published by: The Imam Khomeini Education & Research Institute, 2008. [In Persian]

Metz, Thaddeus. “The Meaning of Life.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2022 Edition). https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2022/entries/life-meaning/>.

Nesar Hosseini, Abtin. “Study and criticism of Edward Wilson on Human nature.” International Conference on Research in Science and Technology 4. 2016. [In Persian]

Peters, Ted. Bazi Dar Naghshe Khoda. Translated by Abd-al-reza Salar. Tehran: Ney, 2016. [In Persian]

Quinn, Philip. “The Meaning of Life.” edited by E. D. Klemke, 57-64. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Tabatabayi, Mohammad Hossein. Tafsire Almizan. Translated by: Seyyed Mohammad Bagher Moosavi Hamedani. Tehran: Darolfekr, 1981. [In Persian]

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**Akhavan, Mahdi, Seyyed Mahdi keshmiri, and Hamed Merati. “Errors of John Mackie's Error Theory.” Philosophical Meditations 6, no. 16, (2016): 145-171. [In Persian]**

**AliZamani, Amir Abbas, and Mahdi Ghafoorian. “Moallefehaye zendegiye manadar az didgahe John Katingham.” Journal of Philosophical Investigations, no. 17 (2010): 7-32. [In Persian]**

**Benatar D. Better Never to Have Been, the Harm of Coming into Existence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.**

**Cottingham, J. On the Meaning of Life. London: Cambridge, 2003.**

**Fathali, Mahmood. Basirate Akhlaghi. Qom: published by: The Imam Khomeini Education & Research Institute, 2007. [In Persian]**

**Hajizadeh, Moslem, Mohsen Jahed, and Sahar Kavandi. “Biologizing Ethics: Analysis and Critique of Edward Wilson's Evolutionary Ethics.” Journal of Bioethics 9, no. 33 (2019): 41-54. [In Persian]**

**Kitcher, Philip. Vaulting Ambition, Cambridge MA: MIT press, 1985.**

**Mackie, J.L. Ethics: inventing write and wrong. England: Penguin Books, 1977.**

**Mesbah Yazdi, Mojtaba. Bonyade Akhlagh. Qom: published by: The Imam Khomeini Education & Research Institute, 2006. [In Persian]**

**Mesbah Yazdi, Mojtaba. Falsafeye Akhlagh. Qom: published by: The Imam Khomeini Education & Research Institute, 2008. [In Persian]**

**Metz, Thaddeus. “The Meaning of Life.” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2022 Edition). https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2022/entries/life-meaning/>.**

**Nesar Hosseini, Abtin. “Study and criticism of Edward Wilson on Human nature.” International Conference on Research in Science and Technology 4. 2016. [In Persian]**

**Peters, Ted. Bazi Dar Naghshe Khoda. Translated by Abd-al-reza Salar. Tehran: Ney, 2016. [In Persian]**

**Tabatabayi, Mohammad Hossein. Tafsire Almizan. Translated by: Seyyed Mohammad Bagher Moosavi Hamedani. Tehran: Darolfekr, 1981. [In Persian]**

Volume 10, no.2 - Serial Number 19
October 2023
Pages 187-205