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| Nihilism: Nihilism in philosophy is the view that life has no inherent meaning or purpose. It is often associated with the belief that there is no God and that objective morality does not exist. See also God, Morality, Objectivity, Relativism, Sense, Life, Existentialism._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Friedrich Nietzsche on Nihilism - Dictionary of Arguments
Ries II 11 Nihilism/Nietzsche: overcoming nihilism oneself from the "will to nothing", to the will of the Dionysian affirmation of the fatality of all that was and will be. Ries II 69 Nihilism/Return/Nietzsche: Nihilism and return must be thought together. The existence determined for nothing as a self-willing world of creation and destruction. >Eternal return/Nietzsche. "Everything is the same." Only in the "affirmation" the transition from the "mind of revenge" to the "Cupid Fati" takes place, the Dionysian way of saying "yes" to the world. Overcoming the mere temporality of time to the eternity of eternal return. "O human," bell in Sil's Maria. Ries II 112 Nihilism/Nietzsche: the well thought out logic of our great values and ideals. Ries II 113 The aim is missing. Return of the same. In vain! Duration, without aim and purpose, the paralyzing thought: one realizes that one is being teased and yet without power. Ries: Nietzsche anticipates the terrorist practice of fascism. Even those who have come to bad fortunes must be convinced that they are no different from their oppressors. Will to nothing. They force the powerful to be their executioners, this is the European form of Buddhism. - - - Danto III 40 Nihilism/Danto: nihilism was essentially a negative and destructive attitude against the set of political, religious and moral doctrines which the nihilists patronize most impressively expressed by Turgenev's fathers and sons. Danto III 41 Nihilism/Nietzsche: Nihilism according to the pattern of St. Petersburg that is, (...) belief in unbelief, up to martyrdom (therefore) always shows the need for belief first.(1) Danto III 42 Nihilism/Turgenev/Danto: the views of the figure of the Basarov from Turgenev's fathers and sons have something touchingly immature: A skilled chemist is twenty times more useful than any poet. Nihilism/Nietzsche/Danto: Nietzsche's negativity was not more moderate, but his nihilism is not an ideology, but a metaphysics. >Metaphysics/Nietzsche. He does not regard science as a source of truth or a method of discovering it, but rather sees it as a certain set of useful fictions or useful conventions, which in reality is not better or worse anchored than any once defined set of fictions which may conflict with it. Danto III 43 Russian Nihilism/NietzscheVsNihilism: In contrast to Schopenhauer's Nihilism, Russian Nihilism is characterised by the fact that outside the world there is an authority, from which the purpose of life can be learned. Danto III 44 Nihilism/Nietzsche/Danto: ... the human reaches the final form of nihilism: the unbelief towards any other imaginable world, which is metaphysically preferable to this one. At the same time, he understands that this world is the only one that exists, however much it may lack design, purpose and value. >Value/Nietzsche. Danto III 46 Eternal Return/Nietzsche/Danto: Nietzsche's nihilism culminates in the doctrine of the Eternal Return, according to which the world repeats itself endlessly and precisely. Nietzsche considered it to be a serious scientific insight and the only alternative to that view, according to which the world has or can have a goal, a purpose or an end state.(2) Danto III 43 Nihilism/Schopenhauer/Danto: the nihilism of emptiness, as well as Schopenhauer's nihilism, presupposes a widespread worldview according to which the goal is established from the outside, given, demanded. (F. Nietzsche: Nachlass, Berlin, 1999, p. 554). NietzscheVsSchopenhauer: Instead of overcoming the state of mind that demands such a purpose, this nihilism is only disappointed by its absence. By overcoming it, all pessimism and despair is deprived of a basis. From his frustration with the all too stingy fairy, the human is able to free himself as soon as it gradually dawns on him that there is neither a stingy nor a generous fairy. >Schopenhauer. 1. F. Nietzsche Fröhliche Wissenschaft, S. 347,, KGW V, 2, S. 264. 2. F. Nietzsche Nachlass, Berlin, 1999, S. 684._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Nie I Friedrich Nietzsche Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe Berlin 2009 Nie V F. Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil 2014 Ries II Wiebrecht Ries Nietzsche zur Einführung Hamburg 1990 Danto I A. C. Danto Connections to the World - The Basic Concepts of Philosophy, New York 1989 German Edition: Wege zur Welt München 1999 Danto III Arthur C. Danto Nietzsche as Philosopher: An Original Study, New York 1965 German Edition: Nietzsche als Philosoph München 1998 Danto VII A. C. Danto The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art (Columbia Classics in Philosophy) New York 2005 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-18