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[filed under theme 23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 2. Nihilism
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Full Idea
Nietzsche's first presentation of nihilism is an existential affair arising from cosmic problems, but he later stressed nihilism as a historical and cultural problem of values, where mankind's highest values reach a point of devaluation.
Gist of Idea
Initially nihilism was cosmic, but later Nietzsche saw it as a cultural matter
Source
report of Friedrich Nietzsche (Works (refs to 8 vol Colli and Montinari) [1885]) by Keith Ansell Pearson - How to Read Nietzsche Ch.1
Book Ref
Ansell Pearson,Keith: 'How to Read Nietzsche' [Granta 2005], p.9
A Reaction
The second version seems to imply a quasi-Marxist determinism about social progress. Then you would have to ask, what is the point of fighting against it? I wonder if Nietzsche's values are anti-nihilist, but his metaethics makes nihilism unavoidable?
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Jacobi was the first philosopher to talk of nihilism
[Jacobi, by Critchley]
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For me time stands still, and I with it
[Kierkegaard, by Carlisle]
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23214
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For the strongest people, nihilism gives you wings!
[Nietzsche]
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20125
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The ethical teacher exists to give purpose to what happens necessarily and without purpose
[Nietzsche]
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23717
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Modern nihilism is now feeling tired of mankind
[Nietzsche]
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Nihilism results from measuring the world by our categories which are purely invented
[Nietzsche]
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24123
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My eternal recurrence is opposed to feeling fragmented and imperfect
[Nietzsche]
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Initially nihilism was cosmic, but later Nietzsche saw it as a cultural matter
[Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson]
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9782
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Nietzsche urges that nihilism be active, and will nothing itself
[Nietzsche, by Zizek]
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The greatest experience possible is contempt for your own happiness, reason and virtue
[Nietzsche]
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It is absurd to say that evil proves life is worthless. If it were, why would evil matter?
[Weil]
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19622
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The pointlessness of our motives and irrelevance of our gestures reveals our vacuity
[Cioran]
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Evidence suggests that humans do not have a purpose
[Cioran]
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19612
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The universe is dirty and fragile, as if a scandal in nothingness had produced its matter
[Cioran]
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9243
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If we believe existence is absurd, this should dictate our conduct
[Camus]
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6708
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Happiness and the absurd go together, each leading to the other
[Camus]
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'Absurdity' is just the result of our wrong choices in life
[Solomon]
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If a small brief life is absurd, then so is a long and large one
[Nagel]
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Life is only absurd if you expected an explanation and none turns up
[Graham]
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Perceiving meaninglessness is an achievement, which can transform daily life
[Critchley]
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