According to Nietzsche, it is a psychological need which is the driving force behind all true world philosophies. Those who subscribe to these worldviews tend to be morally and spiritually weak. To imagine another, more valuable world, is an expression of hatred for the world that makes one suffer. As true world theories are pessimistic and a mere step away from nihilism, what modern man needs is a worldview not dependent on a true world. In the next video we will explore Friedrich Nietzsche's worldview predicated on the will to power as an alternative to true world theories.
In 1888, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote: “What I relate is the history of the next two centuries. I describe what is coming, what can no longer come differently: the advent of nihilism.” Nietzsche, The Will to Power Nihilism is the conviction that there is no meaning to life, that the world is inhospitable to […]
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Nietzsche and Nihilism – A Warning to the West first appeared on
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