In echo homo he claims that he is a dynamite. What does he want to explode? Meaning of life or nihilism? The answer is nihilism of his time. NZ believes life is a celebration, Dionysian. His appreciation for the ancient Greek (pre-Socratic) comes from this way of looking at life. He negates the negativity and pessimism as found in Schopenhauer. His antagonism are those who negate life. His social context should be taken into account. Europe of late 19th century is a nihilistic context. Nihilism is not a metaphysical but a cultural phenomenon.
In echo homo he claims that he is a dynamite. What does he want to explode? Meaning of life or nihilism? The answer is nihilism of his time. NZ believes life is a celebration, Dionysian. His appreciation for the ancient Greek (pre-Socratic) comes from this way of looking at life. He negates the negativity and pessimism as found in Schopenhauer. His antagonism are those who negate life. His social context should be taken into account. Europe of late 19th century is a nihilistic context. Nihilism is not a metaphysical but a cultural phenomenon.
In echo homo he claims that he is a dynamite. What does he want to explode? Meaning of life or nihilism? The answer is nihilism of his time. NZ believes life is a celebration, Dionysian. His appreciation for the ancient Greek (pre-Socratic) comes from this way of looking at life. He negates the negativity and pessimism as found in Schopenhauer. His antagonism are those who negate life. His social context should be taken into account. Europe of late 19th century is a nihilistic context. Nihilism is not a metaphysical but a cultural phenomenon.
NZ methodology (method of writing): NZ is an anti-systematic thinker and he admits to having
this methodology (as he claims in the twilight of the idol). He is suspicious about systematic thinkers. NZ sees this as a weakness and consciously goes against this. How about Pascal? Had he read him? He sees this as a combination of irony (black humor), critical theory, and prophetic versus. His methodology is a surgical analytically deconstructing the phenomenon. In echo homo he claims that he is a dynamite. What does he want to explode? Meaning of life or nihilism? The answer is nihilism of his time. NZ believes life is a celebration, Dionysian. His appreciation for the ancient Greek (pre-Socratic) comes from this way of looking at life. He negates the negativity and pessimism as found in Schopenhauer. His antagonism are those who negate life. His social context should be taken into account. Europe of late 19 th century is a nihilistic context. Nihilism is not a metaphysical but a cultural phenomenon. Turgenevs Fathers and Sons is a portrait of this nihilism of Europe. This is the same phenomenon that Nietzsche wants to discuss. He thinks that nihilism is a result of the jewish and chrisian morality. His answer to this question is that this moral system which has been around for a few thousands of years, has causes us to distance from our innate desires and wills. His philosophy is not deconstructism but desctrucism. The morality that NZ promotes is not Platonic (its not ideal), it not Aristotelian (its not Virtue ethics), its not Kantian, not utilitarian. His morality is connected to his genealogy. How genealogy can answer to main moral questions? He believes that genealogy establishes a positive perspectivism through which we can see the answers to the main questions of morality. Nietzsche is a naturalist and he wants to bring this view into morality. What is important for him is deed and the doer (a form of pragmatism). What the nature of will is? Active? Proactice? He sees the world as an accumulation of our will. We dont just think about the world, we chance the world (he said that before Marx ????) He puts a peculiar emphasis on promise. This is an important concept since it has deep roots in western religions. He says one can only promise to someone when he is responsible. So if there is this free will, and its different in different people both in degree and form, then why when we accuse a prey bird to lame saying why it doesnt act like a lame, it sounds absurd? He wants to go over the dichotomy between good and evil. As long as we are stuck in this dualism, we have not reached the maturity required by Enlightenment. He goes against Darwinist positivists. One of the people he is attacking is David Strauss a historian who wrote a book of the life of Jesus. Another point of view on the question of morality is certainly a historical view on the question of morality. He wants to trace the origin of moral biases. Slave morality, Nobility morality. His discussion is not a political and social position. When he talks about nobility morality he talks about those whose moral value is self-generated, self- constituted. Their measure of morality is an affirmative one. Slave morality is an oppositional one (resentment). It is the result of frustration and herd morality. His view point is not a social but cultural point of view. The groups who hold slave morality are priests, Socratic morality, etc. Where does the weakness of the will of Socrates come from? NZ is a fan of Homerian morality and heroes. Heroic morality for him is a self-constituting morality. He believes we have gone astray after Socrates. All of them go against the essence of human nature. He goes against the intellectualism of Descartes and Kant. NZ disagrees with the Cartesian dualism. What we have to think about it is how we can apply his oppositions to the modern moral problems that we are facing. The question of universality to be pondered upon. Can NZs morality be universalized?