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By Jonathan Evans - May 21, 2002

Nihilism is "the destruction of everything without pity" (Palmieri, 3). A completely different movement that is sometimes lumped together with Nihilism is Existentialism, which is a belief that "the world is without meaning or purpose." It also states "existence itself - all action, suffering, and feeling - is ultimately senseless and empty…

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