"Complete Nihilism" in Nietzsche

Philosophy Today | January 1, 2001| | Copyright

Whatever I create and however much I love it- soon I must oppose it and my love; thus my will wills it. And you too, lover of knowledge, are only a path and footprint of my will; verily my will to power walks also on the heels of your will to truth.1

Nietzsche's assessment of modernity is ambivalent. On the one hand, he describes it as the age of the last man, the age of stifling mediocrity where the values of the herd have become universally triumphant; on the other, he describes it as a promising dawn, a re-awakening of humanity's full potentialities. He characterizes this new beginning as ...

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