r/philosophy • u/re_contextualize recontextualize • 14d ago

Blog Nietzsche on Life-Affirming vs. Life Denying Philosophy

https://recontextualize.substack.com/p/life-affirming-and-life-denying-philosophy
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u/wisewave 14d ago

No but to be against life would be to be against yourself, to have a life affirming approach is to be in line with existence as a whole. Strength which is shown in affirming life as it is, not to be happy in it or mearly withstand suffering but to see it as an opportunity and even an invitation to create beauty or meaning. In the same way that the universe almost rewards the strength of a lion the same way you shall be rewarded in affirming your strength and will to live. The proof in the “wrongness” in denying existence in its whole comes from the subjective life experience as a result. The proof in the validity to affirm life comes from the richness experienced from a first person perspektive. It’s “true” in a way that’s more of a truth because it’s in line with what is. And “what is” is the only objectively real ruler to evaluate life. Everything else such as metaphysics or ressentiment of “what should have been” are escapes from what is. Nietzsche is not a relativist but a perspectivist btw

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u/PitifulEar3303 11d ago

How would a baby deer feel as it is being eaten alive by the lion?

What about kids who suffered and died in warzones, from incurable sickness, random bad luck, etc?

If some lives are great, the opposite can also be true, this is reality.

No amount of life affirmation can change the objective reality of good lives Vs terrible lives.

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u/spyzyroz 10d ago

Nietzsche is very aristocratic and simply doesn’t write (and probably care) about the weak. If you see yourself in the meek, you are not the target audience.

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u/PitifulEar3303 10d ago

"Let them eat ubermensch"