Nietzsche’s thought (1844–1990) was perhaps one of the most revolutionary, interpreted and manipulated throughout his short history, with him, for many, God has died and a new way of seeing and understanding the world was born. saves the thought and man of the yoke that has been imposed, as a sophisticated attempt to avoid the worst of his phobias. A phobia of life, yourself and your freedom.
For Nietzsche, the origin of many of our ills is in Greece, enlightened and partly democratic, where we put aside the myth and began to like logos, a reason that placed us as insufficient beings, limited and stunned by the shadows that we saw in Nietzsche, he will be suspicious of this modernity and will think that under this construction there is only resentment towards life, towards what happens to us and what we do not like.
(? and then tragedy)
In Greece, Dionus lost (life) and Apollo won (the reason). In this way, we are hypnotized by a perfection that we project, and that would always have come out precisely by the way we articulate: far, because there we put it, of our own nature. Our condemnation and, at the same time, our destiny: transcend the symbolic form and move to the material form. The only way to reverse this conviction: death.
A speech that remains perfect today for religious fundamentalists, who cover themselves in the body with bombs and embark on the path of a better world, but take other lives, which they believe is their passport.
If Socrates opened the door to the possibility that this thought would be separated from dionism (life) and Apollo (reason), it was Plato who placed one on top of the other, thus complementing socratic thought (from knowledge came to reason) and, therefore, The extension of this division and hierarchy would then remain in the hands of Christianity, which would speak of life as a preparation for death or as a valley of tears.
A grief whose reward is paradise. A discourse that perfectly corresponded to the difficulties faced by people, accused and tormented by hunger, plague and thirst for hope. Suffer now, then your reward will come. But only for those who have suffered enough.
This vision also implies a moral condemnation of man, since the highest actions can never be his work. That is why we may have popularized phrases representative of the acceptance of this sentence as “there is no evil that does not come well”. , this is the justification that many have used to explain how it is possible for an almighty God motivated by his infinite goodness to allow the misfortunes that afflict us.
Going back to the heart of Nietzsche’s thinking, this is how we create a scale of values more focused on our faith than on our knowledge. Anyway, we’re smart people, and couldn’t the Middle Ages or the Middle Ages last forever?
In the meantime, we began to build science, the best existential solution we imagined to abstract ourselves from the sensitive. Science in this regard was for Nietzsche only the perfect instrument that had created man to make a hole in the cave and look out. Our hope, in establishing it as a paradigm, would be to understand determinism, fate, which would somehow be written for all. An algorithm where everything fits: yes, those that are now used in most companies to try to understand what our next purchase will be.
Nietzsche confronts precisely this thought with his nihilism, on which his whole “philosophy of the hammer” is based. It is the destructive part of his philosophy, attacking the construction of traditional knowledge and its manifestations, Western culture and the areas in which it is reflected.
In his nihilism, Nietzsche explains why he thinks we are sick and why what happened in Greece meant the birth of a tragedy for us; his answer represents a Copernican twist, comparable to what happened with illustration and anthropocentrism, but with a very different inclination and inclination. Unlike those shown in the picture, I didn’t think science would save us, but I understood that it is a substitute for religion, smarter and more vital in some respects.
A religion that has been left as proof of our resentment of life; and, therefore, our illness and repression of our existential instincts.
Another manifestation of this unhealthy modernity, the part of religion or science (represented for Nietzsche in mathematics in particular), is in language, so just as we try to reduce life to numbers, we also try to reduce it to concepts. therefore to be a fiction, a collective instrument with which the truth is sought. A truth that we strive to be classifiable, objective, quantifiable, reducible to concepts, absolute ?, when the world in which we walk does not work like this.
Understanding the disease, what would be the solution for Nietzsche?It invests again in values and allows the birth of the superman, who will try to live a good enough life to the point of wanting to revive it in the same way (eternal return). This is really the existential part of Nietzsche, his way of transcending suspicion and then embracing life.