To become healthy life affirmers we must, says Nietzsche, become “poets of our lives” . We must narrate our lives as Bildungsromanen, stories of progress towards a life-defining goal in which the traumatic events—“the loss of a friend, sickness, slander, the failure of some letter to arrive, the straining of an ankle”—turn out to be things that have a “profound significance and use precisely for us” so that they “must not be missing.”
The key concept is not “greatness” but rather “meaning”. “If you have your ‘why?’ of life”, says Nietzsche, “you can put up with almost any ‘how?’: man does not strive for pleasure (Glück).
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The key concept is not “greatness” but rather “meaning”. “If you have your ‘why?’ of life”, says Nietzsche, “you can put up with almost any ‘how?’: man does not strive for pleasure (Glück).
Nietzsche’s Struggle Against Pessimism
A familiar way of writing a book about Nietzsche is to follow a particular topic through the corpus: art, religion, or truth, for instance. Patrick Hass...
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