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Nihilism

In Our Time: Philosophy

CHAPTER

The Incoherence of Nietzsche

Nietzsche's views are profoundly incoherent. His whole attitude to the revaluation of all values was profoundly incoherent, because he wasn't just throwing away highest values or extreme values. And he'd hoped that having created a sort of post-atomic wasteland, that he would create a new set of values. But alas, all they can come from is from basic appetites and instincts. That is really where Nietzsche has been a great inspiration to some of the most appalling things that happened in the century after his death.

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