“O sancta simplicitas! (sacred simplicity) In what strange simplification and falsification man lives! …. How we have made everything around us clear and free and easy and simple! How we have been able to give our senses a passport to everything superficial, our thoughts a divine desire for wanton leaps and wrong inferences!” (Aphorism 24).
Friedrich Nietzsche was, and still is, one of the most controversial philosophers of all time. I believe that Nietzsche’s grapple with the concepts he tries to make sense of, lead to his eventual insanity. “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you” (aphorism 146). Nietzsche spent his whole life trying to make sense of existence, attempting to label and give value (or lack thereof) to every aspect of life as all philosophers do. Nietzsche, however, took the opposite approach to this impossible task. Ni
And all this is without a mention of his most controversial work, The Anti Christ. In this book Nietzsche kills god and calls all Christianity a hypocritical waste of thought. “The thing that sets us apart is not that we are unable to find God, either in history, or in nature—but that we regard what has been honored as God, not as “divine,” but as pitiable, as absurd, as injurious; not as a mere error, but as a crime against life…we deny that God is God…If any one were to show us this Christian God, we’d be still be less inclined to believe in him” (pg 68).
etzsche gave no value to anything. Aristotle was all about finding happiness. Kant taught of the Universal Imperative. Nietzsche basically told the whole world to screw off. I could easily turn this into a 20-page paper if I went into depth on all his views, so I will lightly touch on his biggest points. The world according to Nietzsche is rather pointless, we just wander around this planet bump
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