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German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is sometimes dismissed as a malevolent figure, obsessed with the problem of nihilism and the "death of God". Understandably, these ideas are

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Nihilism is the belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated. It is often associated with Friedrich Nietzsche who argued that nihilism would destroy all moral, religious, and metaphysical convictions and precipitate the greatest crisis in human history.

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Explore how Nietzsche described, criticized, and departed from nihilism in his philosophy. Find out why he rejected absolute and universal values and advocated for new perspectives and values.

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Friedrich Nietzsche. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a German philosopher and cultural critic who published intensively in the 1870s and 1880s. He is famous for uncompromising criticisms of traditional European morality and religion, as well as of conventional philosophical ideas and social and political pieties associated with modernity

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Among the countless apprehensions or fixations that haunted the 20th century, the question of nihilism was undoubtedly a fundamental one. Far from being a mere philosophical concern, the succession of sociopolitical conflicts that shook Europe during this period made its presence (or as Nietzsche would call it, the 'specter of nihilism') permeate the totality of the West (at the very core

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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844—1900) Nietzsche was a German philosopher, essayist, and cultural critic. His writings on truth, morality, language, aesthetics, cultural theory, history, nihilism, power, consciousness, and the meaning of existence have exerted an enormous influence on Western philosophy and intellectual history. Nietzsche spoke of "the death of God," and foresaw the dissolution

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1. The Critique of Morality 1.1 Scope of the Critique: Morality in the Pejorative Sense. Nietzsche is not a critic of all "morality." He explicitly embraces, for example, the idea of a "higher morality" which would inform the lives of "higher men" (Schacht 1983: 466-469), and, in so doing, he employs the same German word — Moral, sometimes Moralität — for both what he

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Nietzsche is a self-professed nihilist, although, if we are to believe him, it took him until 1887 to admit it (he makes the admission in a Nachlass note from that year). No philosopher's nihilism is more radical than Nietzsche's and only Kierkegaard's and Sartre's are as radical. Nietzsche's nihilism is certainly more radical than the

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Nietzschean nihilism is a complex phenomenon with socio-cultural, cognitive, and affective dimensions. As a particular historical, socio-cultural phenomenon treated by Nietzsche, nihilism is "European nihilism": the specifically European and Judeo-Christian denigration of this-worldly existence, either explicitly stated or implied by particular belief systems or ideologies (KSA 12:2[131]).

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This idea of the valuelessness of natural existence - what he comes to call "nihilism" - can be dangerous, tearing a "people" apart and leading to "utilitarian vulgarity" (UM.2.9) and a "horrifying ethic of genocide" (BT 15/74). In response to nihilism, Nietzsche argues that we must uphold culture, especially in the wake of

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Nietzsche's Ethics. The ethical thought of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) can be divided into two main components. The first is critical: Nietzsche offers a wide-ranging critique of morality as it currently exists. The second is Nietzsche's positive ethical philosophy, which focuses primarily on what constitutes health

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How does Nietzsche understand nihilism, and what are the different forms of nihilism he criticizes? This article argues that nihilism involves being unmoored from the right values that confer meaning on existence, and that Nietzsche offers a positive alternative to nihilism in his affirmation of life.

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The Deconstruction of the Tradition:: Nietzsche and the Greeks. Download. XML. The Nietzschean Interpretation … of Freud as Thought on the Fragmentary, as Fragmented Thought. Download. XML. Minoritarian Deconstruction of the Rhetoric of Nihilism. Download. XML.

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A History of Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century - March 2023. Chapter 9 gives a reading of Nietzsche's account of nihilism based on his unfinished work known as The Will to Power.Given the death of God and the collapse of traditional values, people are debilitated by a sense of hopelessness and meaninglessness.

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The twenty-nine references to nihilism in his published (or authorized) work are just too sketchy and disconnected to provide an adequate basis for understanding Nietzsche's take on nihilism by themselves. 1 On the other hand, his notebooks contain a wealth of connected material on nihilism, material that he was clearly planning to use in

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For Friedrich Nietzsche, nihilism is a terrible psychological problem - a coping mechanism with deadly consequences. Friedrich Nietzsche's well-known reputation as a philosophical provocateur is partly the result of his commitment to disabusing his readers of a variety of beliefs: their beliefs in a higher purpose, in an afterlife, in disinterested knowledge, in the absolute value of

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Summary This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Nihilism Skepticism Nihilism and Skepticism

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clarification of Nietzsche's understanding of nihilism in several different ways. When Nietzsche explicitly talks about "the history of European nihilism" (in text 8 from Appendix A, for example), that is generally intended as a history of the (near) future, that is to say, "of the next two centuries" (text 9).

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The Historical Context Of Nihilism. As a philosophy, nihilism rejects the value and meaning society places on people, objects, and life. The exact origin of the term is uncertain, but scholars have been able to pinpoint it to the 18th century. From there, nihilism became a popular topic within philosophical circles.

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One of Nietzsche's chief concerns is nihilism.Here is a partial list of things that Nietzsche calls nihilistic or associates with nihilism: Christianity and Christian morality; Buddhism; Schopenhauer; turning against one's passions, affects, and desires; seeing the world as lacking purpose, direction, or meaning; seeing the world as having life-negating purposes, directions, or meanings

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Nihilism (/ ˈ n aɪ (h) ɪ l ɪ z əm, ˈ n iː-/; from Latin nihil 'nothing') is a family of views within philosophy that rejects generally accepted or fundamental aspects of human existence, such as knowledge, morality, or meaning. The term was popularized by Ivan Turgenev and more specifically by his character Bazarov in the novel Fathers and Sons.. There have been different nihilist

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Nietzsche, The Will to Power. Nihilism is the conviction that there is no meaning to life, that the world is inhospitable to our highest hopes and values, and that there are no gods or higher purposes to justify our suffering. To be a nihilist is to flirt with despair and the sentiment that life is not worth living, and thus, the nihilist

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Nietzsche and Nihilism RICHARD SCHACHT WAS NIETZSCHE A NIHILIST. 9 It is widely thought that he was; and Arthur Danto, in his book Nietzsche as Philosopher, 1 subscribes wholeheartedly to this view. Indeed, Danto claims that "Nihilism" is "the central concept of his philosophy." 2 He attributes to Nietzsche "a deep and total Nihilism" 3---one

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