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Nietzsche intended to say the radical opposite, from Ecce Homo: "My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different
by Barrin92 2y ago
Nietzsche intended to say the radical opposite, from Ecce Homo:
"My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendacity in the face of what is necessary—but love it"
For him there were no transcendent values, ideologies, gods, what have you. People weren't individualist enough. To him it wasn't about latching onto some cause but to, in his words, become who you are. Affirm your own will and say yes to the world even if you, like in one of his thought experiments, lived in the worst world imaginable, on repeat, forever.
- alfiedotwtf 2y agoIt’s almost as if Nietzsche was a nihilist :)
- daseiner1 2y agoIt’s arguable that the chief through line of his corpus is the attempted overcoming of nihilism. He viewed nihilism as one of the largely inevitable outcomes of the failing of transcendentals to provide meaning. Thus he attempts to overcome modern ennui via the construction of a strictly immanent conception of the world. Labeling him a “nihilist” is misleading. Owing to the conflation of nihilism with a dour, depressive outlook, many are surprised to find out that his writing is in fact consistently joyous.