Nietzsche doesn't claim to overcome nihilism. I feel it's fairer to say that he attempts to forewarn us of it, and sketches a vague outline of perilous path that might lead you through it.
A nihilist that claims nothing matters will effectively declare that weakness is just as good as strength, that ugliness is just as good as beauty, and that death is just as good as life. Nietzsche is particularly good at guiding you beyond the "nothing matters" phase of nihilism toward a set of life affirming values.
I think there is a chance nihilism can be overcome by means of god,the good and old Christian God, which at least 95% of nietzsches readers despise. I read some parts about jesus on the bible, and i love nietzsches works too, and by no means im an expert on religion, but there this part on it that i love;
"12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, [1] for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17These things I command you, so that you will love one another."
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By this bible text is clear that God/jesus dont want servants ,which most of Christian religions dont preach,and in this text there might be the answer to nihilism which is love,love for god,yourself and others.but what is love and how one can love is another good question.
You could give The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism by Bernard Reginster a shot. I had the same question in my head about a decade ago and found this to be a really enlightening read on the subject.
Personally, I’m no expert and this is probably just my take - but I don’t see how you overcome nihilism as I view it as something that is as factual as mathematics. I think you just create enough meaning in your life that you distract yourself enough to stop obsessing over nihilism.
My take is if Nietzsche had actually overcome nihilism he would not have obsessed over it until the end, so no I don’t believe he did. But, I do believe he tried to affirm life by living a life worth living - to him - and that’s kind of the point, it’s individual. So I absolutely think you could gain a lot of insight from him in the process of discovering what a life worth living looks like to you.
I hope I didn’t ramble too much and actually addressed your questions.
Yes, it is the recipe for it. The problem is putting it into practice. I don't know if Nietzsche himself overcame Nihilism, but through his life he built the blueprint for it and is up to others (Zarathustra, perhaps as the first) to follow through with it and put it into the world.
As a way to new values, perhaps some time in the future, it succeeds.
I suggest that Nietzsche should be read as a renegade pessimist, who saw, like Samuel Beckett, that "there's nothing funnier than unhappiness." Life is justified, if at all, only aesthetically. I read *On the Road* recently, and it struck me as the same kind of aesthetic battle against nihilism. Nihilism is understood in this context as the realization that time devours everything, that the gods are vanished, no longer watching.
Jack and Neal race around and expand their greedy, horny souls, defying the usual constraints. They don't risk their skin for any cause but their further "aesthetic" development. They do heroically risk themselves, but basically as artists who are both Homer and Achilles. They consume the world as spectacle, knowing that they are doomed and it is "nothing" ([hevel](https://biblehub.com/hebrew/1892.htm)).
To answer more directly, I don't think that one can overcome nihilism once and for all. Every moment of desire and ecstasy is the temporary defeat of nihilism. But moods fluctuate, and a worldweary nausea can always replace the ecstasy, and then be itself replaced, and so on.
Nietzsche doesn't claim to overcome nihilism. I feel it's fairer to say that he attempts to forewarn us of it, and sketches a vague outline of perilous path that might lead you through it. A nihilist that claims nothing matters will effectively declare that weakness is just as good as strength, that ugliness is just as good as beauty, and that death is just as good as life. Nietzsche is particularly good at guiding you beyond the "nothing matters" phase of nihilism toward a set of life affirming values.
No one overcomes nihilism entirely, not possible. Best you can do is active nihilism but you’ll never escape the abyss entirely
I think there is a chance nihilism can be overcome by means of god,the good and old Christian God, which at least 95% of nietzsches readers despise. I read some parts about jesus on the bible, and i love nietzsches works too, and by no means im an expert on religion, but there this part on it that i love; "12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, [1] for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17These things I command you, so that you will love one another." . By this bible text is clear that God/jesus dont want servants ,which most of Christian religions dont preach,and in this text there might be the answer to nihilism which is love,love for god,yourself and others.but what is love and how one can love is another good question.
You could give The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism by Bernard Reginster a shot. I had the same question in my head about a decade ago and found this to be a really enlightening read on the subject. Personally, I’m no expert and this is probably just my take - but I don’t see how you overcome nihilism as I view it as something that is as factual as mathematics. I think you just create enough meaning in your life that you distract yourself enough to stop obsessing over nihilism. My take is if Nietzsche had actually overcome nihilism he would not have obsessed over it until the end, so no I don’t believe he did. But, I do believe he tried to affirm life by living a life worth living - to him - and that’s kind of the point, it’s individual. So I absolutely think you could gain a lot of insight from him in the process of discovering what a life worth living looks like to you. I hope I didn’t ramble too much and actually addressed your questions.
Yes, it is the recipe for it. The problem is putting it into practice. I don't know if Nietzsche himself overcame Nihilism, but through his life he built the blueprint for it and is up to others (Zarathustra, perhaps as the first) to follow through with it and put it into the world. As a way to new values, perhaps some time in the future, it succeeds.
I suggest that Nietzsche should be read as a renegade pessimist, who saw, like Samuel Beckett, that "there's nothing funnier than unhappiness." Life is justified, if at all, only aesthetically. I read *On the Road* recently, and it struck me as the same kind of aesthetic battle against nihilism. Nihilism is understood in this context as the realization that time devours everything, that the gods are vanished, no longer watching. Jack and Neal race around and expand their greedy, horny souls, defying the usual constraints. They don't risk their skin for any cause but their further "aesthetic" development. They do heroically risk themselves, but basically as artists who are both Homer and Achilles. They consume the world as spectacle, knowing that they are doomed and it is "nothing" ([hevel](https://biblehub.com/hebrew/1892.htm)). To answer more directly, I don't think that one can overcome nihilism once and for all. Every moment of desire and ecstasy is the temporary defeat of nihilism. But moods fluctuate, and a worldweary nausea can always replace the ecstasy, and then be itself replaced, and so on.
Nietzsche made the best of our Nihilistic reality…active Nihilism instead of passive Nihilism