“In the new morality, the highest values will be self-creation and the joyful affirmation of life without purpose!.”
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Position:Home>Philosophy> What did Nietzsche mean by this statement? ?Question: What did Nietzsche mean by this statement!? !? “In the new morality, the highest values will be self-creation and the joyful affirmation of life without purpose!.”
Thank youWww@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I think he's talking about the new age and it's values!. Self creation he thinks will be one of the highest because, assuming that there would be no need to concern yourself with clothes food and shelter, whatever a person creates would be appreciated and used by others!. There would be no money and whatever a person produces and wants to produce would be used in society to survive and everything would be free!. Since survival wouldn't be a concern, having a purpose for various things associated with survival wouldn't be necessary!. It would be a carefree society and completely free, and because there would be no anxiety about surviving and no money, there wouldn't be any crime, except for sexual crimes, perhaps, but since the whole ethics of society would be very high, the impulse to commit a crime would be minimal!.Www@QuestionHome@Com He meant poetry, regarded more as kind of a creative power, is the key to understanding, kind of a metaphysical tool which helps best when Infinity is pushed on authors!. It is very easy to understand, say for example "Disney" or Japanese "comic books", and draw upon it to create this or that piece of art, so Nietzsche proposes a new scheme of things more in accordance with talents such as that of Picasso or Einstein's!. To put things simply one could possible say it is impossible to be fully aware of the world when you cannot forget who you are!. The fact life is meaningless, does not necessarily mean there is no purpose, or that we all should commit suicide, but rather that that goal, purpose or whatever, is something you bring about (it is not like God is telling you what to do)!. Some men need guidance and counsel whereas others just provide with it!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Life seems static when you take your moral values and your life's purpose from a book!. It hinders self-improvement!. Self- creation!. which to him is one of the highest values, because then there are no convictions, only probabilities and certainties which are always subject to further analysis as we acquire more and more knowledge!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Self-creation means total self-responsibility for ones behavior/ the direction of ones life and "the joyful affirmation of life without purpose" is simply the 'affirming' and true appreciation of life, even with the knowledge that it is not required that you do so!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I think he meant the "self" rules and nothing else matters!. But that's derivative isn't it!? Www@QuestionHome@Com |