Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Nietzsche and future humanity


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Nietzsche claimed the exemplary human being must craft his/her own identity through self-realization and do so without relying on anything transcending that life—such as God or a soul. This way of living should be affirmed even were one to adopt, most problematically, a radical vision of eternity, one suggesting the "eternal recurrence" of all events. According to some commentators, Nietzsche advanced a cosmological theory of “will to power.” But others interpret him as not being overly concerned with working out a general cosmology.
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I have been pondering on some recent descriptions I have heard of Nietzsche and his philosophy and this citation reads like much of the views within modern Western society.

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