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.
Nietzsche thinks this is very dangerous, because the public will make the hole immortal. People who lose correct guidance can only wander in the fog. They not only refuse to accept challenging ideas, but also settle for the status quo, try their best to avoid great sadness and great joy, complete the mediocre side of human beings, focus on their own daily lives and carefully pursue this happy life. Human civilization will stagnate, and mankind will eventually be swallowed up by emptiness.
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For Nietzsche, 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 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.
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.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche