Nihilism is a world view that consists of denial of everything thas is involved with life itself such as our purposes and meanings of life. In the book “The Universe Next Door” by James W Sire claims that “Nihilism is a denial of any philosophy or worldview, a denial of the possibility of knowledge, a denial that anything is valuable If it proceeds to the absolute denial of everything, it even denies the reality of existence itself” which is brought upon the cosmos because there is not any relativity with spirtuality. Some see nihilism as humans being their own concsious machine without no purpose in the end of it.
Exisentialism is the worldview that every individual is on their own when it comes to their own decisions and choices and what they bring upon themselves for their purpose of life. In Existentialism there is no such thing as a “higher power” that is supposed to control what a persons life is and what its meaning of it, we are our own “higher power”. There are two different types of existentialism which are “Atheistic existentialism” and “Theistic existentialism”. Atheistic existenailism is described as everything exists through matter and with science and has nothing
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Even though they both do have some mutality they are different when it comes to their own worldview, For example Nihilism gets to the point that there is absoulity no faith when it come to meaning to life and that we as humans are here living just to live because there is no point to our existences, while with existentalism even though there is still no meaning to life as a human we should should still have the our own power to find a purpose for our lives but we as humans only have the authority for our decsions and choices no anyone