
Overcoming Nihilism: Nietzsche vs Dostoyevsky
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The Problem With Nihilism
In times of peace like this, and in times when everyone is rich,. they have time to entertain themselves. So I feel that passage goes a long way to explain what Nietzsche means by nihilism. What the problem is that we are facing right now. There is no religion in viewing civilization with meaning, destiny, sense of purpose. The art of wounding and torturing others with words and looks reaches its supreme development in times corruption. They know of types of murder that require neither daggers nor assault. They also know that whatever is said well is believed. That's such times of corruptions are gentler. His book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Pinker's book. Such
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