Originally Posted by windsock

I think that pessimism and nihilism have a lot of fundamental crossover. Nihilism, a grand-scale skepticism, pessimism, and ultimate rejection of existence shares a lot in common with philosophical pessimism. The two are not the same and I won't conflate them as such, and they're different especially in the vein of how they affirm life itself. Nietzsche drew a lot of inspiration from Schopenhauer in how he parroted nihilism but he made it clear they aren't the same thing. If they were, nihilism wouldn't exist and we would just have philo pessimism.