What Does Nietzsche Mean By Our Destructive Nature

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher that that was born on October 15, 1844. This German philosopher is most famously known for his philosophical outlook on anti-morality and on how humans create morals to combat our destructive nature. Now you may be wondering what Friedrich means by our destructive nature and I’ll explain but first we need to know a little about his life. Friedrich was born on October 15, 1844 in Röcken bei Lützen, a small village in Prussia (now Germany). His father was a Lutheran preacher that died when Nietzsche was four years old which left his mother with the task of raising Nietzsche and his sister. Nietzsche after attending college attended two semesters at Bonn University and later transferred to the university

It was during this time where he started to move away from a scholarly approach and began with a more unique approach as he begins to describe life as suffering. Now numerous people come up with the idea that Nietzsche was a nihilist or that he was a relativist but in fact he was neither. He challenged both religion and our human nature and how humans become compromised into thinking that autonomy and morality are one. He says that autonomy and morality are mutually exclusive and that from our moral side of the human condition we suppress some parts of our human nature. For example, one of his focus points was the church and how it focuses to castrate of destroy one’s passions. The church through his eyes see was the doctor removing the cancer(passion) from a human’s life. It is there where he says that the practice of the church is hostile to life because passion to him is the roots of human life. Without passion, he describes the human life as meaningless and it is through passion that we find meaning in life although it may come with

He did say there was danger in this was that man would find existence meaningless. That’s why he directed all his work into finding a new meaning for man as if man were to see the world as meaningless it would mean the downfall of society. This is where his idea of individual autonomy comes along as individual autonomy is the idea that is generally understood to refer to the capacity to be one's own person, to live one's life for reasons and motives that are taken as one's own and not the product of manipulative or distorting external forces. To make it simple you are your own person that decides to live your life how you want to without having anyone influencing you for example god. He says morality only condemns a human as it limits their capabilities unlike an immoralist which has a wider understanding. Unlike Nietzsche there was another famous philosopher by the name of Soren Kierkegaard who just like Nietzsche believed in the idea of our own choices and saw the church as crutches. Though Nietzsche said that god is dead and that we make our own choices Kierkegaard took a different approach in that believing in god was up to