The crisis in which the highest values lose their value and the principles that organized reality stop organizing it. Shore treats it as another name for God's death.
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Nietzsche holds that the egalitarianism of Christianity, a religion he calls nihilistic, also infects democracy, which he regards as rule by the mediocre, working against the vitality and heroism life requires.
Nihilism is simply another name for the death of God: the crisis in which our supreme values become worthless and the principles that once structured reality no longer do.
Put simply Nietzsche: "nihilism" is another name for the death of God. It is the crisis that comes when our highest values lose their worth and the principles that once ordered reality stop doing so.
No replacement God can end the nihilist crisis, and every such attempt fails, because wanting an ordering principle is where the crisis began: the disorder has no real cure.
Put simply Nietzsche: the crisis cannot be solved by putting a new God in the old one's place. Every such attempt fails, because wanting something to order everything is where the crisis began. There is no real cure.
Other readings Bernard Reginster (The Affirmation of Life, 2006) reads Nietzsche's philosophy as aimed at overcoming nihilism, through a revaluation of values that affirms life, suffering included.
Shore hears in Sartre's equation of nothingness with freedom less Heidegger's being-toward-death than the nihilism of the 1910s avant-garde: if anything is possible, nothing has a ground.
Put simply Shore: when Sartre equates nothingness with freedom, she hears less Heidegger's focus on death than the mood of the 1910s avant-garde artists: if anything is possible, nothing stands on solid ground.
There are two ways to think the absent center: mourn it, in the sad, guilty, nostalgic Rousseauist manner, or affirm with Nietzsche the joyous play of a world without origin.
Put simply Derrida: with no fixed center, we can respond in two ways. Mourn it, sadly, guiltily and nostalgically, in Rousseau's manner. Or celebrate, with Nietzsche, the joyful free play of a world with no origin.
1 link between claims that both use the term. Each shows the earlier claim, then the later one that answers it. “Our inference” marks a link Shore does not state outright.
NietzscheNihilism is simply another name for the death of God: the crisis in which our supreme values become worthless and the principles that once structured reality no longer do. L6 · 45:46
NietzscheNo replacement God can end the nihilist crisis, and every such attempt fails, because wanting an ordering principle is where the crisis began: the disorder has no real cure. L6 · 46:11
Adds that the nihilist crisis has no cure by substitution because the ordering impulse itself is the root.
Throughlines that pass through one of these claims.
Terms that appear in the same claims.