My question is this:
If I have a good basic understanding of Nietzsche; does this mean that Nietzsche saw everything as bleak, meaningless and harsh? Another question is: Would his overman would end up being an iconoclastic narcissistic brute who carves out his own meaning for himself on his own terms? — Agathob
The better Nietzscheans here can answer your questions better. Until they do:
One thing I can say confidentally: Nietzsche wasn't looking to supplant one (Apollonian) with the other Dionysian). He thought both were necessary.
He also, definitely, didn't think we should create new values from scratch. He didn't want us to repeat old values, sure, but the process of creating new values isn't sketching on a blank canvas. — csalisbury
I believe I have a fair idea that he believed all Apollonian moral systems were inherently flawed and needed to be replaced with a Dionysian based one that he felt was more life affirming in a harsh and meaningless world. — Agathob
does this mean that Nietzsche saw everything as bleak, meaningless and harsh? — Agathob
Would his overman would end up being an iconoclastic narcissistic brute who carves out his own meaning for himself on his own terms? — Agathob
This is true. But metaphor is the core of literary expression and Nietzsche was as much a poet as a philosopher. This makes reading him exciting, sometimes with admiration and sometimes with horror. The official history says that Nietzsche fell into madness in 1889. I think that madness was haunting him long before that. But you mustn't disdain crazy people. Sometimes they're the ones who tell the truth that we "sane" people don't want to see.Metaphorical expressions always present some difficulty via some unavoidable ambiguity. This is what saved the Christian faith and churches. — god must be atheist
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