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Welcome to rationally speaking, the podcast where we explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense.

I'm your host, Massimo Pilucci, and with me as always is my co-host, Julia Galev.

Julia, what are we going to talk about today?

Well, Massimo, as you know, but our listeners don't.

Our producer, Benny Pollock, recently started doing a little

reading and research into the topic of nihilism, or as some people pronounce it, nihilism,

and asked if we'd do an episode on it. And we said, sure, whatever, nothing matters anyway,

so why not? Exactly.

So here we are doing a podcast on the philosophy of nihilism.

It's ins and outs and how to tell if you might really be a nihilist deep down.

Okay.

So Massimo, do you want to kick, I mean, if you think this works, kick things off with just a rundown of the different kinds of nihilism?

Because I suspect people don't realize how many different types there are.

Yeah, there's a fair number.

So first of all, of course, generally speaking, the word nealism or nihilism comes from

a Latin, which means, you know, nothing.

So it is about a

it's a general attitude of negating something and that's something depending on what

you're negating you're a different type of civil nihilist right so you could be at

the very minimum you could be for instance a metaphysical or ontological

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