Originally Posted by
idolatrie
Well, I'd probably need to clarify what you mean by nihilism, but I'll take it as...a sort of rejection of inherent meaning in things, that instead all knowledge is constructed and situationally dependent, there's no greater overarching narrative or meaning that we're moving towards.
I'd argue that it could possibly be explained in functional terms in the interaction of Se and Ti. Focus is on the experienced material world, and that is what is known. The meaning that is then attributed to the lived experience is only relevant to the individual, and formulated by the individual. But I mean, I'm basically just defining the two functions there and saying that correlates to a nihilistic outlook, it's no great insight.
I don't know the two characters you refer to there, and while I wouldn't really categorise my personal philosophy as particularly nihilistic, I'm completely a child of post modernity and cannot really accept any other perspective as my own in any authentic way. (I know, I'm the wrong beta ST to answer your question, sorry, but I don't feel I know enough about the inner philosophical leanings of any SLEs I know to assume what their beliefs are.) The correlation makes sense though. I mean...it just is, you know?