Human nature is complex, and there is neither pure goodness nor pure evil. In many cases, the two are mutually transformed or exist. The abyss is a hole formed by people who lack the pursuit of "higher value". The more people who don't pursue "higher value", the bigger the hole. In fact, the abyss has been staring at us, but we don't have the deep and keen insight of philosophers and can't see its existence.
The original text is from Nietzsche's The Other Side of Good and Evil. The whole sentence is: "if you fight the dragon for too long, you will become a dragon yourself;" If you stare at the abyss for too long, the abyss will stare back at you. "
Let's share a brief introduction about Nietzsche:
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (German: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche,1844101October15-1900, at the age of 55): German, a famous philosopher.
His writing style is unique and he often uses aphorisms and paradoxes. Nietzsche had a great influence on the development of later philosophy, especially on existentialism and postmodernism.
Nietzsche began to criticize modern civilization in his first academic work The Birth of Tragedy. He pointed out that in capitalist society, despite the increasing material wealth, people have not achieved real freedom and happiness. The rigid mechanical model suppresses people's personality and makes people lose the passion of free thinking and the impulse to create culture. Modern culture is so decadent, which is the disease of modern civilization, and its root is the atrophy of life instinct.
Nietzsche pointed out that to cure modern diseases, we must restore human life instinct, give it a new soul and make a new explanation of the meaning of life. Inspired by Schopenhauer, he pointed out that the noumenon of the world is the will of life.
His aesthetics lies not in the discussion of academic theory, but in solving the fundamental problems of life with aesthetics and advocating an aesthetic attitude towards life, which is actually a philosophy of life.
Share Nietzsche's philosophical thoughts again;
Nietzsche thinks that philosophical thinking is life and life is philosophical thinking. He founded different forms of strange philosophy and showed his philosophical thoughts. His philosophy does not need reasoning and argumentation, and there is no systematic framework. It is not a theoretical system at all, but his direct perception of the joys and sorrows of life.
Nietzsche believes that in a world without God, people have gained unprecedented opportunities and must establish new values, values centered on human will. Therefore, it is necessary to liquidate the traditional moral values. The traditional moral concept is God's last fortress, which deeply permeates people's daily life and corrodes people's hearts. Nietzsche called himself an immoral man and an anti-Christian, and he fiercely criticized the virtues advocated by western traditional morality.
Christian values emphasize that people should restrain their own desires, learn humility, and regard pain as a test of God. People should not pay too much attention to the things in this world, but need to look to the afterlife and pray for entering a paradise after death.
When a person gives up Christian belief, he pulls out a set of Christian moral values from his feet, and the whole belief collapses.
Nietzsche said that the collapse of "higher value" will form a huge hole, which will make culture chaotic, elite culture will be pushed to the edge, and popular culture will merge into a turbulent vortex in the hole.