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THE INCOHERENCE OF SOFT NIHILISM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2017

David Matheson
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Abstract

As an evaluative view in the philosophy of life, nihilism maintains that no lives are, all things considered, worth living. Prominent defenders of the view hold that, even so, it can be all-things-considered better for us to continue living than for us to cease living, thus endorsing a ‘soft’ nihilism that appears more palatable than its ‘hard’ counterpart. In support of an intuitive assumption about what nihilism implies, I argue that soft nihilism is incoherent.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 16 , Issue 47 , Autumn 2017 , pp. 127 - 135
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2017 

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