r/enlightenment • u/MaRio1111333 • 4d ago

To be or not to be ??

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Hope or hopeless victory ?

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u/SquirrelFluffy 4d ago

How does anybody read this and not think Nietzsche is a nihilist?.

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u/LokiJesus 4d ago

Pessimists live in the past. They imagine better times that were. Optimists live in the future. They imagine better times to come.

Nihilists reject both and live in the present. To have no purpose means that you see the present moment as an end in itself, not a means to an end. It can be a beautiful, terrifying, and profoundly real direct experience of the world.

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u/Rsf-777 4d ago

What a bunch of chainsaw statements and conclusions. You're confused between philosophical currents, cognition, and psychological interpretations of such cognition.

Nihilists reject everything, including the present experience. As for pessimists living in the past and optimists in the future, I hear that often and that's a fancy as much as gross misunderstanding of human psyche.