All About “Ism”s: Nihilism
The name of the nihilism movement comes from the Latin word nihil. The monolingual counterpart of this movement is "the belief that nothing". The most popular representative of nihilism is undoubtedly Friedrich Nietzsche. The biggest problem of nihilism is that people fall into oblivion because they reject all values. You do not believe in religions, human emotions and family structure. For this reason, many nihilists have ended their lives when they reach a certain age. This is one of the great reasons why Nietzsche is more popular than other nihilists. Nihilism is not only about accepting, but trying to give it a direction. How can such a flow be directed?
Nietzsche defines pessimism as people who accept nihilism and see life as empty and drifting. Nietzsche opposed this and argued that it was not necessary to pass into a pessimistic structure after being nihilist. He does not accept universal morality law. But he does not completely reject the morality. Some societies regard the concept of virginity as a universal morality and want everyone to follow it. Some societies do not care about this or even consider it. Let us question whether it is right to accept it. Is this an obstacle? Firstly it is equally obstructive because it covers only women. However, it also hinders the concept of freedom because it restricts one's freedom. Because of this, occasionally the nests can be scattered and even the murders can be processed, thus hindering both the right to life and the right to life. Beside all these obstacles, there is no element to develop the person. According to Nietzsche's nihilist concept, this is a moral concept that must be rejected.
To give an opposite example, let's take the murder. The morality of the murder is punished and the right of life is guaranteed. Although freedom of restrictive elements According to some opinions, the freedom of someone else's freedom (freedom to live) is restricting, it is not a free pressure element. This would improve understanding of morality is the morality of the people and acceptable according to Nietzsche's nihilistic concept will not make any restrictions. In this case, certain human morality developer moral order instead to reject the nihilism everything can now be built into chaos.
'' Violence is one of the sources of joy in the oldest festivals of mankind. Therefore, when the sight of the gods of horror is presented, they are thought to be relaxed and cheerful. Thus, it is spread to the world that the suffering of volunteers is a good meaning and value of a person's chosen torture. "
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Very interesting points. I loved learning about Nietzsche in high school. You've inspired me to do a refresh soon.
Nietzsche is truly one of the most important philosophers in all of Western philosophy.
Like, not only did he "transvaluate" all Western, Christian values rendering them trivial and archaic, but he left such a wide open space for the entrance of a whole new way of being subjects-in-the-world.
Like, the work of François Laruelle and Alain Badiou owes everything to Nietzsche for allowing them to become the cutting edge of contemporary philosophy!
Good post!