What if Philosophy? Not to be cynical or anything but i honestly think That A Philosopher is someone who realized that he loved college and didnt feel like leaving, therefore he/she tries to tell everyone else their opinions. Yawn! If you are like me and you are averse to philosophers then you would notte that Friedrich is no different. Like other Philosophers Friedrich pitches us (the masses) his idea of what he feels about the world as it pertains to politics, religion, and other things, which he hopes that we are gullible enough to believe. I dont know where all this animosity is comming from, but I guess I should be a little nicer towards Philosophers. Most of them seem to be artless when it comes to what they believe or what they want to be accomplished for the bulk of society. What's ironic though is that wether intentional or not the ideals of many philosophers are often used negatively or to justify evil even if the original arguments behind the philosophy were good. Friedrich and Marx are two well known examples of this. Friedrich and his ideas of "The death of god" which deals with we as human being eing murderers when when metaphorically kill god when we give up our fatih. What this does is that it releases two ideals. One which states that because of the faith in god being lost human beings can now pay muuch more attetion to the problems of te world at hand and try to make things better for individuals. The other is less benevolent which takes the idea that with no god there are no "universal laws of morality", therefore people can act however they want to each other. With Marx his ideas on communism are often challenged by corupt rulers and harsh dictators. In theory communism is supposed to be the perfect economic system because it serves to provide for the basic needs of all, however this doesn't happen because dictators of many communist countries provide for the basic need but the qualities are lacking. Enough about the ambiguity of Philosophers, and lets talk more about friedrich nad his ideals.
The "Death of god" which Friedrich often talks about brings up the idea of a lack in the universal laws of morality. This belief in a lack of morality directly correlates to the beliefs of nihilism.This type of nihilism is actuallly moral nihilism which states that morality again does not exist in life and that established moral values and concieved abstractly. The other type of nehilism according to the article is existential nihilism which states life is without meaning purpose or value. From these two different forms of nihilism we can see that the over all, nhilism is a philosophical doctrine which suggests the negation of one or more aspects of life. From the wikepedia article on Friedrich's early life I would assume that he possibly composed this philosophical doctrine later in his life after he let the university of Bonn which is when he lost his faith in the Christian religion. Nihilism it self has its good and bad implications I would say that I generally agree with the idea that it is described "as a condition of tension, as a disproportion between what we want to value (or need) and how the world appears to operate." As a marxism and some what pragmatist I like to be told the truth and often see the world for what it really is. I like to be hopefull that things will end up right which is what I want but I know that this cannot be the case.
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