ETHICAL SUBTERFUGES OF CIORANIAN NIHILISM
ETHICAL SUBTERFUGES OF CIORANIAN NIHILISM

Summary/Abstract: The existential vacuum arises from several interfering causes and can occur in a multitude of forms, masks and faces. The true meaning of life must be discovered outside, in the world, because the human being is not a closed system. To become human means, without a doubt, to dedicate yourself to causes oriented outside you, to a sense of love that looks at the other. In the struggle with himself, in the burden of suffering, Cioran seems to miss precisely this alliance of human perfection, often deliberately omitting contact with the world, blinded by the obsession of his own suffering. Then suffering begins to dig the (inner) subterfuges of ethics, to which we cannot determine the efficiency, nor the viability in relation to the outside, in a possible ethical process with the world, their origin being so sensibly subjective. In other words, self-transcendence is essential for ethical relationships; without it man remains captive in himself, exterminating any possibility of reconciliation with the world. The human being temporarily comes to resort to a helpful, adapted ethic.

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