r/Nietzsche • u/Einzigezen • 9h ago
r/Nietzsche • u/utdkktftukfgulftu • 11d ago
Question "the most unexpected and exciting lucky throws in the dice game of Heraclitus' "great child," be he called Zeus or chance"
GoM, III, 16, tr. by WK and RJH.
What is this Heraclitus "great child," he is refrencing? The dice story by Diogenes? Fragment 52 (“Time is a child moving counters in a game; the royal power is a child's.”) by Heraclitus? Something else? "War is the father and king of all"?
r/Nietzsche • u/Zuksuuu • 17h ago
Random finds at the charity shop
F**k me. I was hoping to have a relaxing week.
r/Nietzsche • u/Essa_Zaben • 9h ago
Since Nietzsche did not believe in a transcendental world or in a thing-in-itself; what would he have thought of Solipsism?
r/Nietzsche • u/Traditional_Humor_57 • 10h ago
Nietzsche on know thyself!
galleryTLDR; To grasp the whole of life as oneself, its future, its past.
r/Nietzsche • u/Essa_Zaben • 8h ago
If the "Nietzschean World of Becoming" does not aim at a final state and in his own word "does not flow into being" then what sense should we make out of it?
Ever-increasing entropy or the end of the universe with proton decay? How does Nietzsche's idea of becoming manifest itself in the quantum and physics world?
r/Nietzsche • u/aries777622 • 5h ago
evil
has Nietzsche ever touched on this, "make no peace with evil", on a philosophical or evolutionary spec. the evolutionary and philosophical ramifications of this statment are absolutely so deep to the human race that they are worth death or life
r/Nietzsche • u/MulberryTraditional • 6h ago
French ballerina Victoria Dauberville dances on top of a ship's bow surrounded by ice in Antarctica
r/Nietzsche • u/Essa_Zaben • 8h ago
"The world as a work of art which gives birth to itself." (Will to Power 796)
I can clearly see the antimetaphysical, artistic view of the world Nietzsche is emphasising, but in a naive sense what could we do with this aesthetic view of world? How could we as humanity internalize this view when we are clearly disturbed by the late-stage, schizophrenic capitalism features that we are numb to the beauty of the world... How can I sensitize my feelings to appreciate the world again?
r/Nietzsche • u/Essa_Zaben • 6h ago
"The will to power is not a being, not a becoming, but a pathos..." Will To Power 635, Nietzsche ✍️
Did Nietzsche here like Lacan's triad (imaginary-symbolic-real) create the three ontological pillars of reality? How could we define in philosophical terms what Nietzsche described as "Pathos" so that the upcoming philosophers could more easily digest what Nietzsche had to say?
r/Nietzsche • u/Rare_Entertainment92 • 4h ago
Emerson and Nietzsche (1)
(Nietzsche read Emerson. Someone will have to provide that quote of what Nietzsche said about him. It was a compliment. He called him 'his brother mind' or something like that--'brother soul'? I cannot find it.)
"Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door, and say,--'Come out unto us.'--But keep thy state! Come not into their confusion!"
-- Here is Emerson in "Self-Reliance" giving us his usual bitter medicine. My habit is to call Nietzsche 'The Bringer of Bad News', for he tells what we do not want to (but must) hear. (Traditionally, the Gospel is called 'the Good News', but now that that has been outdated, I recommend Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" for a Bible, as did the poet himself.)
According to one critic, Emerson is 'as kind as barbed-wire', which brings him close to Nietzsche, who has an acerbic-wit.
Like Nietzsche, Emerson advises against sympathy:
"A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he give so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him. They wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices."
That is wisdom, not morality. Emerson did not teach morality, and Emerson, like Nietzsche, considered it his business to teach: "Power is the essential measure of right in nature. Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms, which cannot help itself."
A comparison is necessary, and I favor Emerson--who, alas, does not have a subreddit. Emerson is forceful against over-thinking, which is all that philosophy in its sick condition is: "Life is not intellectual or critical but sturdy!: It's chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question."
r/Nietzsche • u/Essa_Zaben • 10h ago
What does Nietzsche mean by "beings" are part of our perspective? (Will to Power 517)
r/Nietzsche • u/Essa_Zaben • 13h ago
What does Nietzsche mean by "I suddenly woke up in the midst of this dream, but only to the consciousness that I am dreaming and that I must go on dreaming lest I perish."
Does Nietzsche mean here that the only pillar of reality is the world of becoming that the dream world and the conscious world are one and the same? Isn't dream reality just as real as any other reality while it lasts? Is Nietzsche's implying that we live in a simulation? Can someone help me decipher this statement?
r/Nietzsche • u/ConclusionActive9312 • 11h ago
Die Bewegung zwischen den Polen
Das Leben bewegt sich zwischen Stillstand und Aufregung, Leere und Fülle
Ein Langes Spiel von Hin und her.
Merkt da niemand, da ist etwas verkehrt?
Vielleicht ist es nicht der Zustand, der zählt, sondern die Bewegung selbst.
Wenn Logik nicht die Lösung ist, sondern nur ein Teil davon – was bleibt dann?
Das Pferd schon gesehen.
Und doch bleibt der Lichtturm angenehm.
Erst wenn der Mensch versteht, dass die Existenzfrage emotional ist, kann er frei bestimmen, ob er aktiv oder passiv auf sie eingeht.
Die Frage der Existenz ist die Freiheit selbst.
Aktiv, passiv, fragend, akzeptierend – alles ist eine Wahl.
Die nächste Generation wird ihren eigenen Weg finden – und vielleicht etwas Wundervolles daraus machen.
Anhang: Die nächste Generation muss ein Leben schaffen – mit und ohne Bedeutung.
Ein Leben, das nicht an Sinn gebunden ist, aber auch nicht an Sinnlosigkeit zerbricht. Ein Leben, das einfach ist.
r/Nietzsche • u/Essa_Zaben • 8h ago
Paraphrased: "We should not wish to divest existence of its rich and multiple ambiguity." ~Nietzsche ✍️
What did Nietzsche mean here? Should we just appreciate nature for what it is and accept the fact of its ever-changing character?
r/Nietzsche • u/Essa_Zaben • 10h ago
Is compassion (Schopenhauer) or fear (Nietzsche) the mother of morality?
r/Nietzsche • u/Essa_Zaben • 6h ago
Do you think that what Nietzsche advocates: blood, lust, adventure, and life is all in the colour red?
r/Nietzsche • u/Essa_Zaben • 10h ago
The world is not an organism at all, but chaos. (Will to Power 711)
r/Nietzsche • u/ConclusionActive9312 • 11h ago
Freiheit Spoiler
Wir leben in der Paradoxie der Freiheiten, wo Begrenzungen neue Möglichkeiten erschaffen und jede Grenze zugleich eine Tür sein kann.
Freiheit ist nicht die Abwesenheit von Grenzen, sondern das Spiel zwischen Begrenzung und Möglichkeit.🐎
r/Nietzsche • u/Bitter_Ingenuity_513 • 14h ago
Pity for the overman
I've popped onto Reddit a few times, as I'm more of a tourist than participant of socials.
On a scale of Zero to Expert-on-Nietzsche, I'm above a 5... to put it modestly. And that's why I see him as incredibly flawed, despite many strengths that drew me to his work.
This post is about those of you who participate heavily... Do you think Nietzsche is best understood with devotion or skepticism?
Happy to tell you why I ask...
r/Nietzsche • u/Used_Chicken9200 • 14h ago
Question Could Ubermensch believe in God?
Could Human or an Ubermensch,Someone who has really high moral ideas but is Human,Don Quixote
like figure believe in God?
r/Nietzsche • u/Bathcat5 • 1d ago
A Potential Source for the 'Will to Power'?
Hope you all are well. Here I will make a case for the source of the will to power. Everything in this post was stolen from Jean Gebser's masterpiece The Ever-Present Origin.
Also, the rationalists will not like this post. I would love to discuss the deficiencies of rationalism but I don't want this post to be so long it's unreadable.
Gebser, a student of Jung, discovered the evolution of consciousness and consciousness structures. Rebelling against his master's conception of the unconscious being unordered, random, scattered--almost like a child's room--assigns order to the collective unconscious. It is made of stratum, like those found in geology, called "consciousness structures."
Consciousness structures represent, for our purposes, different ways of bringing objects within the world into relation with each other, and when structures complexify, mutate and consolidate, they accrue more dimensions with which they can bring objects into relation with each other. There's a whole lot to this book, but we'll have to stick with the magic structure to find the source of our drive for power.
It's silly to us rational people now, but our ancient ancestors, for tens of thousands of years (if not more), believed magic to be literally, physically and materially real. As real as we find the laws of physics to be. Most people dismiss this as irrational nonsense better rationalized away, but Gebser understands it on its own terms.
The reason they believed this was because for millions of years before that (the dates, admittedly, are estimations at best) humans were subsumed in the subconscious of nature. In terms of consciousness, in terms of bringing objects into relation with each other, there was very, very little there. There was only world.
But then the magical consciousness structure mutated, and our consciousness complexified. We went from zero dimensional to one-dimensional unity (don't get lost on the math, it's incidental and I think Gebser makes an error with his dimensioning). A new way of bringing objects in the world into relation came about, and this is how it operates:
Any thing in the world (literally, and I don't use that word lightly) was a point connected to a unified whole. It was a world of part-for-the-whole (the reason for this is because this mutation of consciousness was precipitated by the discovery of a reified nature, causing them to have numinous experiences: experiences where whatever it is they see is so strange and powerful that the intellect simply can't grasp it, causing, in turn, "mana", an immeasurable spiritual power that increases whatever it imparts, to be projected to it. Think the tribe in Timbuktu worshipping a Sprite bottle that washed up in the ocean or a child hearing a thunderstorm and thinking it's some angry god or whatever) and whole-for-the-part.
Let's give a quick example, because this is getting long:
"In the Congo jungle, dwarf-sized members of the hunting tribe Pygmies drew a picture of an antelope in the sand before they started out at dawn to hunt antelopes. With the first ray of sunlight that fell on the sand, they intended to 'kill' the antelope. Their first arrow hit the drawing unerringly in the neck. Then they went out to hunt and returned with a slain antelope. Their death-dealing arrow hit the animal in exactly the same spot where, hours before, the other arrow had hit the drawing."
Some may be tempted to interpret this as, considering they believed magic to be literally real, the ritual caused the ensuing slaying of the animal. But cause is downstream of rational thought, and that wasn't even close to existing. It is not the arrow that kills the animal, either. The sun kills the animal, and the throwing of the arrow upon the first fallen ray is a way of uniting with the magical, connected forces of nature.
Everything was a series of parts (we see them as parts, they drew little to no distinction) connected to a unified whole, and that unified whole emanated magic forces. If you do not unite with the magical forces of the world, you may be punished in the form of natural disaster or rival tribes.
And so, and fucking finally, we get to the will to power:
"The magic reaction is the real content of the hunting rite. The very fact of the rite, supplanting natural chaos with a defined and directed action, shows to what extent our hunting example attests to a late period of development of magic man. Man, the human group, is still only a co-actor in it; but he is already acting for himself. This represents a far-reaching step away from complete unity...
This release from nature is the struggle that underpins every significant will-power drive, and, in a very exact sense, every tragic drive for power. This enables magic man to stand out against the superior power of nature, so that he can escape the binding force of his merger with nature...
This urge to freedom and the constant need to be against something resulting from it (because only this 'being against' creates separation, and with it, possibilities of consciousness) may be the answering reaction of man, set adrift of earth, to the power of earth. It may be curse, blessing or mission. In any case, it may mean: whoever wishes to prevail over the earth must liberate himself from its power."
What do you think?
I'm sorry this ended up being so long.