I've read about nihilism and I'm very fond of Friedrich Nietzsche, but I've been inquiring about neo-nihilisim and have only been able to stumble on it's "Manifesto". I think that it's inconsistent based on what I've read, but maybe you all can shed some light on this subject.
2006-09-06 09:10:00 · 3 answers · asked by Tyler Durden 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
instead of wasting your time on Nietzsche, read John Milton.
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2006-09-12 03:33:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, there's really not much "neo" about it; I mean, once you believe in nothing, how can you "revise" that?
But here's a rather funny take on it:
"So, it's my night to be philosophical, and I will. Don't worry, it won't take long.
I have figured out that I'm a neo-nihilist. Yeah, that's a word that I made up. Instead of the old nihilist idea that nothing can be known for sure, my idea is that nothing really matters for sure. Long-term and on the grand scale, of course... stuff will always matter to us individual humans, that's the way that we're made.
The trouble with neo-nihilism is that, once that you've made the claim that nothing matters... you have nothing left to say. Sure, you can go on to explain *why* nothing matters, just to convince people... but that really doesn't matter. The only reason that you would want to do something like that is to make a buck, after all. And that *would* matter to you as an individual. Bucks are nice, I've heard. But, in a thousand years? No one will know, no one will care, if there is even an earth at that time.
So neo-nihilism is a convoluted form of hedonism, I guess. I would like to be considered a very humane neo-nihilist, hedonistic in the fact that I only want happiness for myself, but in order for me to be happy I have to make other people happy, or at least better off in some way. My motives are hedonistic, you see, it's all about me me me me me."
What are my thoughts on it. Well, I don't think much of it; in fact, I think nothing of it.
2006-09-06 10:07:18 · answer #2 · answered by johnslat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nietzsche wrote "God Is Dead", which would answer a lot of questions but also raise a lot more...His father was a pastor and after he went to school it sounds as if he may have had lost his faith in a higher being and became very skeptical...
It didn't sound as if he had a wonderful life, with poor health & fighting with his sisters so maybe that slanted his perception...
2006-09-06 09:31:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋