Nihilism, as Nietzsche understands it, is a philosophical position which both rejects higher values such as truth and morality and denies rather than affirms life. Nietzsche’s relationship to nihilism is complex; while he sees it as the logical consequence of Christian morality and the biased philosophy it produced, nihilism cannot be an end in and of itself, but should be used only carefully to clear the field for the philosophy of the future.
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3. What Is Religious
...nothing left to sacrifice but God, who has been traded for “the nothing”: materialism and nihilism.
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