What's the difference between monotheism and nihilism?

Monotheism


Definition:

  • (n.) The doctrine or belief that there is but one God.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this examination no attempt will be made to evaluate Moses and Monotheism for its literary, psychohistorical, or scientific merit.
  • (2) Early Islam defined itself against the age of jahiliyyah (ignorance) that preceded the prophet Mohammad, who smashed idols in the name of monotheism, as, before him, did the Jewish patriarch Abraham – hence the Old Testament ban on “graven images”.
  • (3) "But it builds something you can't respond to: ethics, decency, monotheism and justice," he added in a his speech, which was broadcast live on state TV.
  • (4) R is for religion "The great unmentionable evil at the centre of our culture is monotheism.
  • (5) Focusing on the abortive subtitle, the core of the paper is a close examination of the original manuscript draft of Moses and Monotheism, completed in 1934.
  • (6) As the historian Jan Assmann puts it: “Moses is a figure of memory, not of history, whereas Akhenaten is a figure of history, but not of memory.” In the Bible, Moses did not invent monotheism.
  • (7) Despite Freud's explicit statements on his intentions in writing Moses and Monotheism, there has been a growing tendency to interpret the work as a coded document of his inner life.
  • (8) Evidence is brough that it is his father, rather than himself, whom Freud identifies with the Moses figure - and the consequences of his identification are used to explain both his obsession with the Moses theme and his seeming digressions into Bible-analysis in "Moses and monotheism".
  • (9) As a man you claim, so to speak, a dispensation from causality otherwise accepted, as a Jew the priviliege of monotheism.
  • (10) There is a wealth of information about Freud in Moses and Monotheism and no one paper will exhaust it.
  • (11) Freud's paper is re-examined and placed in biographical and historical context, Moses and monotheism (1934-1938) is treated as a parallel text.
  • (12) Many writers have commented on the lack of Freud's usual level of logic and powers of persuasion in Moses and Monotheism.

Nihilism


Definition:

  • (n.) Nothingness; nihility.
  • (n.) The doctrine that nothing can be known; scepticism as to all knowledge and all reality.
  • (n.) The theories and practices of the Nihilists.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Quod Nihil Scitur" (That's that nothing we know) is a philosophical open, "adogmatic" and liberal form of scepticism.
  • (2) The problem of a hermeneutic psychiatry would be to steer between the Scylla of naive realism ignoring the major participation of the psychotherapist on the one hand, and the Charybdis of relativism, nihilism, and hopeless skepticism on the other.
  • (3) Therefore the structure of a prenatal diagnostics centre must to a great extent observe the "Nihil nocere".
  • (4) Low CMAPs should not lead to therapeutic nihilism, because it may simply be caused by demyelination without exonal degeneration in CIDP.
  • (5) Farewell bleak nihilism; the cold assurances that all is meaningless.
  • (6) It's hard to see why any party around the world would emulate such nihilism."
  • (7) Therapeutic nihilism or deliberate acceptance of pseudoarthrotic healing, therefore, cannot be justified in treatment of avulsion fractures of the epicondylus medialis humeri.
  • (8) Though it may be true that, in the absence of a dependable cause, there is no single cure for inflammatory diseases of the locomotor system, nevertheless there is no reason for therapeutic nihilism.
  • (9) The psychiatric profession's therapeutic nihilism toward the elderly may reflect unresolved countertransference issues that result in a form of prejudice called "ageism."
  • (10) On the other hand therapeutic nihilism cannot be recommended.
  • (11) Even more disturbing, perhaps, is the threat of moral nihilism.
  • (12) There has been a sense of anomie in the CBC’s broadcasts during these playoffs, and on Wednesday it seemed to have finally morphed into full-blown nihilism.
  • (13) The overriding principle in surgery should always be "nihil nocere".
  • (14) Others confess through their mass rapes, choreographed murders and rational self-justifications a primary fealty to nihilism: that characteristically modern-day and insidiously common doctrine that makes it impossible for modern-day Raskolnikovs to deny themselves anything, and possible to justify anything.
  • (15) But while the scars of apartheid unquestionably run deep, other voices warn against nihilism.
  • (16) Anorectal surgery in HIV+ patients historically has been viewed with a great deal of nihilism.
  • (17) If the political mainstream parties cannot devise a viable response, and quickly, then Britain – like Italy – could find itself overshadowed by the nihilism of an insurgent anti-politics party.
  • (18) I don’t agree with someone like Russell Brand who advocates not voting – it’s pure nihilism, it’s not going to do any good.
  • (19) At the same time, the presence of a very low CD4 count alone should not be considered a reason for therapeutic nihilism.
  • (20) In his essay, however, he began with a confession of his complete ignorance as to the mechanism of secretion: 'Multa in physiologicis obscura sunt, obscurius hac ipsa functione nihil'.