Stoic Nihilism: A Philosophical Treatise:Stoic Nihilism is a philosophical framework grounded in biological reality and existential clarity, rejecting conventional narratives of hope, meaning, or transcendence. It posits that pain, change, and death are the only universal conditions of existence, observable across all life forms regardless of consciousness or symbolic thought. Rather than offering consolation, Stoic Nihilism frames agency as the capacity to navigate constrained probability spaces in service of survival, not salvation. It embraces suffering not as virtue, but as substrate, stripping away illusion to reveal a system where consistency becomes the closest thing to truth. This treatise stands apart from traditional Stoicism and existentialism by refusing to construct meaning where none exists and from classical nihilism by declining to romanticize or assign meaning to the very absence of meaning. Instead, it offers a lucid, unflinching stance toward life without romanticism.
Aidan McGill (Mon,) studied this question.