How Does Nietzsche Lead To Nihilism

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I believe Nietzsche to be correct in his critique in the death of God, nihilism, the master-slave morality and the will to power. Nietzsche claimed that he discovered the death of God: The idea of God has lost its full creative force, its full power, because science and technology have taken God's place in people's lives. The death of God leads to nihilism, the belief that the universe lacks meaning and purpose, and that moral, social, and political values are creative interpretations because without God, there is no objective base for values. I believe he is correct in saying that authentic faith is not possible in the modern world, and therefore God is dead. God has been killed by the belief system that reason rather than experience is the …show more content…

Without a meaningful world there would be lots of hopelessness, sadness, despair, better known as pessimism. This became characteristic of the modern era. Also in his writings he spoke of the “will to power,” which he thought is man’s motivating principle, the opposite of Shoeppenhauer’s will to live. Nietzsche disagreed with Schoeppenhauers idea that the ultimate will is the will to live, and insisted that it is the will to power, a universal desire to control others and impose our ideas on them. I believe that they both have their place, and without the will to live you can’t have the will to power. Nietzsche saw the will to power as a positive thing, a source of strength. He also mentioned the slave-master morality, in which the powerful should be convinced to protect the weak. This is what most of us have been taught in some form, from an early age, the older protect the younger, the brother protects the sister ,etc. I don’t see a problem with it in that aspect. He calls master morality an “aesthetic-heroic honor code” who looks only to himself for value. I think this is a basic hierarchy that will always be there. Most people would not like to call it a slave –master morality because it is demoralizing but yet it exists