/lit/ - Literature

What do you think of this notion about Nietzsche that my professor thinks? He thinks that for Nietzsche, there is not a plan to make a consistent, coherent system, but rather to continually overcome old values, and create new ones, like a child who does not take what they play with seriously, and moves onto the next thing in a fun and creative manner. It is a failed absolute of sorts, in that you continually make something new, an absolute, only to have someone else, the new overman, create another absolute. I think that Nietzsche is caught up in identity thinking, he thinks that there's even a thing to create and then overcome, when really it just sounds like he's trapped in the Samsara of identity and essence thinking, in the very notion that identity persists from one moment to the next. Instead of believing in one ultimate after another, and discarding them all, rejecting absolutes altogether, by positing a conventional reality which is relativistic, only so we can achieve the ataraxia of no-think by discarding the ladder you used to climb up to it.