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Nihilism: Don’t Embrace Nietzsche’s Nothingness “Life itself is essential assimilation, injury, violation of the foreign and the weaker, suppression, hardness, the forcing of One’s own forms upon something else, ingestion and—at least in its mildest form—exploitation.” -Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil The nihilism analysis has been prevalent position over the past few years. Its anticipated purpose is to demand questions about the norms made in a philosophical debate. These contain the notion that one must actually suggest and preserve an idea in order to contextualize one’s idea. Tacitly, this philosophy, nihilism, seems new to most people and to philosophy as a whole. Especially from a Western standpoint. But Nietzsche conducts an unapologetic attack on what society has deemed as conformist morality. And at the end of the 19th Century (when he died) this could have struck many as more progressive rather than conservative. Many during that time, however, saw it as pure sacrilege. The entrenched on both sides have made it difficult for either contender to be objective. But ultimately, that is what helps to complement to this pronounced philosophy. Where did nihilism originate? Western political philosophy has had this interest in Eastern ideologies. The Western thinkers have coveted specific Eastern thoughts as something to be mirrored. American and European thinkers truly could not (and still cannot) comprehend all of these concepts because of the lack of…

The Wanderer and Shadow and the Magician had near the same response when they were questioned. Zarathustra went to the Wanderer and Shadow telling them that they cannot be free if they are idolizing the Ass. He questions the Wanderer and Shadow in how they express how much they are free. However, the Wanderer and Shadow stood by the Ugliest Man (the one who killed God) saying that he brought God back. The next one to be on the questioning block is the clever magician. Zarathustra believes that…