This photo puts the concept of “nietzsche with long hair” in my head and tbh he looks cool, I mean his moustache is just cool already to me but yea lol.
But yea nietzsche is an odd character in the mainstream ideas on philosophy. He was VERY against nihilism. His thing is that he wanted people to create their own values, to think about their actions, their beliefs, and their morals. Blind faith was his main enemy and to him nihilism wasn’t any different than blindly following a religion. Just look at the man he seemed to admire the most, Voltaire. Voltaire’s whole thing was being a free thinker, challenging ideas instead of just accepting them. One of the big things he pushed is that no power of authority should be free of criticism.
But yea nietzsche is an odd character in the mainstream ideas on philosophy. He was VERY against nihilism. His thing is that he wanted people to create their own values, to think about their actions, their beliefs, and their morals. Blind faith was his main enemy and to him nihilism wasn’t any different than blindly following a religion. Just look at the man he seemed to admire the most, Voltaire. Voltaire’s whole thing was being a free thinker, challenging ideas instead of just accepting them. One of the big things he pushed is that no power of authority should be free of criticism.