Xiaoqi Weng

This paper proposes Active Realism as a systematic response to the contemporary slide toward nihilism. The position is distinguished from existing pragmatism, absurdism, and Stoicism by three theoretical operations: first, a neutralization of the concept of the active, returning it from a moral to a dynamical category and thereby giving theoretical standing to expressions such as active death, active exit, and active destruction; second, a positionalization of reality, converting it from a content-judgment into a coordinate-locating, so that action can proceed under the suspension of metaphysical truth-questions; third, a composite operation of dual recognition + enjoyment + transformation, which preserves the possibility of continued action without resolving metaphysical truth-questions. The paper situates this position within the philosophical genealogy since the twentieth century, arguing for its viability as an analytic framework through dialogue with clinical psychology, behavioral economics, political philosophy, and Eastern philosophical traditions. A preliminary typology of population-level manifestations is proposed, and the ethical challenges the position must face are discussed. The investigation suggests that Active Realism occupies a region of the existing philosophical map that has not been adequately developed: a composite pragmatism that is de-ethicized, de-teleologized, de-continuized with respect to the subject, and de-anxietized--and thus carries both theoretical originality and applied potential.