Denial Of Nietzsche's Nihilism

There are actually people who think that Nietzsche was not a nihilist and that his worldview is far from nihilism.  What horrendous exegesis skills they have!  Just like people can misunderstand the Bible, people can misunderstand other books, regardless of the author's worldview.  Having to show that Nietzsche was a nihilist is like having to show that the Bible teaches theism--it is extremely simple.  Some are quick to pretend like Nietzsche was more complex, grand, and rational than he was, when he was largely a fallacious, inconsistent, self-refuting imbecile who believed in contradictions and unverifiable premises.  Defending intellectual failures reveals that one is as intellectually unworthy as the failures themselves.

In his work Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche makes a direct claim that moral nihilism is true: "There are no moral phenomena at all, only a moral interpretation of phenomena" (85).  Here, he asserts that there are no moral truths which govern our actions, though people perceive and interpret events, actions, and ideas in a moral way.  A declaration of moral nihilism could scarcely be simpler and more direct.  Of course Nietzsche was a nihilist!  Nihilism is synonymous with a denial of values, and the existence of right and wrong is tied to the existence of meaning--if morality exists, then so does meaning.

Nietzsche plainly describes himself in his own fucking writings as a moral nihilist, a denier of objective values, and as someone who denies the intrinsic veracity of logic.  If someone identifies himself or herself as an adherent of a particular idea and those from later generations claim that the person actually didn't believe what he or she blatantly said, the ones denying what the adherent said are guilty of fallaciously misrepresenting someone's worldview.  In some cases, this denial seems to be a consequence of quasi-Nietzscheans trying desperately to defend a person with a largely worthless ideology: they are attempting to make Nietzsche's writings sound more sophisticated and salvageable than they actually are.

I openly admit that Nietzsche occasionally reveals patches of genuine brilliance.  I've mentioned this before, after all [1].  However, a great deal of his worldview is nothing more than incoherent, self-refuting impossibilities combined with misunderstandings of almost every major component of reality.  Apart from a handful of legitimate points and a handful of pure contradictions, Nietzsche embraces concepts that would be utterly unprovable at best even if they were true (like moral nihilism).  He contradicts both himself and necessary truths at his worst.  The most thorough depth is always to be found exclusively in the worldviews of actual rationalists, and Nietzsche was far from being a rationalist.  His contradictions and assumptions only highlight how unintelligent he tended to be.

Not even basic theism automatically disqualifies nihilism from being true.  However, there is no rational argument for nihilism of any sort, since either the conclusion always fails to follow from its premises or the premises themselves are fallacious or untrue.  I cannot refute nihilism, but I can refute every argument for nihilism [2].  Nietzsche's nihilism betrays his stupidity.


Beyond Good and Evil.  Nietzsche, Friedrich.  Trans. Kaufmann, Walter.  New York: Vintage Books, 1989.  Print.


[1].  https://thechristianrationalist.blogspot.com/2017/11/nietzsche-on-external-world.html

[2].  https://thechristianrationalist.blogspot.com/2018/06/arguments-for-nihilism.html