NIETZSCHEANISM: HOW ARE NIHILISM AND PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE COMPATIBLE?

Abstract

Summary. The purpose of the work. The article deals with the relationship between philosophy of life and nihilism: the term Nietzscheanism is related to the apology of life, but how Nietzsche asserts the rights of life and how one can correlate the life-affirming nature of Nietzsche’s philosophy with nihilism. Methodology. In carrying out the research and presentation of the problem under investigation, the method of advanced reflexive-critical reading, which involves working with concepts and establishing nuances of meaning when using different terms, is of primary importance. The theoretical basis of the study is such an understanding of philosophy, when it arises with a reflexive consciousness of thought, explaining ways of forming subjectivity, which activates the resources of phenomenology – attention to the primary-constituted content of consciousness in the cleansing of concepts from further layers. The method of dialectical-logical analysis is important as well when working with concepts that imply sophisticated discernment and mutual transformation. Scientific novelty. It is shown that on the whole it is possible to recognize that Nietzsche sets the task of substantiating the life-affirming principles and in this context prefers the setting of the will to power, while the connotations of declining decay and decadence are associated with nihilism. Taken together, these principles appear to be the opposite, but their explication traces logical coherence and conditionality. Dominant of Nietzsche’s interests is attention to the primary and the genuine, one that constitutes the power of everything, as stated in his first book, the leading theme of which is the optics of dual vision, explicated through the action of two principles, contrary to popular thought, neither of them is what Nietzsche prefers. The reference to the illusoriness in which we live becomes the basis of a somewhat different naming of Nietzsche’s philosophy, which is quite habitually called nihilism. At the same time, special attention is paid to the constructive role of nothing as a condition of creative action. Conclusions. The desire for power is revealed as an unbridled will to creativity. Internally logically linked creativity is what Zarathustra loves in man, and the willingness to change and reassess habitual affections, which is called doom to death, that is, the deep foundation of creation is the ability to enter into a state of openness and freedom from the accumulation of senses.