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What does Nietzsche say about the Abyss?
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Nietzsche's 'looking into the abyss' is metaphoric for falling into our own darkness, if we allow a descent into our fear, hatred or unchecked righteousness to feed the way we view and respond, we reflect that abyss, our shadow 'the monster'.
- This is one of the aspects of Nietzsche that is easily overlooked by people who want to see him as simply nihilistic and destructive. For Nietzsche...
- "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster." If you engage in any kind of activity, you begin to e...
- The monster doesn't fight fair. Ethics and morals mean nothing to the monster as their action is unrestrained. In doing battle how can a person win...
- I believe that the first part of the quote means that one should make sure it doesn't become what it fights. I immediately thought of Robespierre i...
- Considering both sentences of the quote I think it would mean that if in the process of bringing about change you become have become obsessed with...
- Perhaps N is cautioning against trying to change the herd or anything that is beneath you, such as one whose 'self' lacks art, as per another respo...
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- I think N was trying to say that with the right motives, it is impossible to become the monster that you are fighting, not that he is cautioning ab...
In 'Thus Spake Zarathustra' published in parts between 3 & 5 years earlier, he had said: "Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman--a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting.
- It's also important to remember that Nietzche's father was an ultra religious Christian and he would have no doubt been well familiar with Jesus' w...
- The key word in the first sentence is "fights." When one fight, one often justifies one's actions by what it does to one's opponents. People who...
- Think about your own demons and enemies. You do your best to push them to the side. But how far will you go? How long do you ponder a darker sol...
- "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster" Think of Quint in Jaws. His experience on the USS Indianapolis so af...
- This is an interesting question and, personally, I have also pondered on what Nietzche meant by this quote. This is my interpretation: The more one...
- Maybe it's a retake on the biblical saying, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. As for the abyss gazing back. I guess if the abyss is e...
- In my opinion it has to do with becoming what you fight against, it is in a way unavoidable not to become a monster if you fight a monster. Staring...
- "When you gaze long into the abyss ... " the abyss being the void, the utter arbitrariness and meaninglessness of the universe ... "the abyss gazes...
May 5, 2018 · Nietzsche and the abyss – The unity of nothingness. “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”. Friedrich Nietzsche.
The abyss is a clever metaphor made by Nietzsche. It is the vast, dark, & potentially all-consuming void. It represents negativity, despair & all that which is bad.
Sep 20, 2016 · The following post contains a number of insightful interpretations of the aphorism in question: What did Nietzsche mean by monsters and the abyss? Nietzsche is cautioning against trying to change the herd or anything that is beneath you-- those are the monsters of which he speaks.
Once you were apes, and even now, too, man is more ape than any ape... The Übermensch is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the Übermensch shall be the meaning of the earth... Man is a rope, tied between beast and Übermensch—a rope over an abyss... what is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end...
Salomè’s Friedrich Nietzsche in His Works (1894) helped cast the image of Nietzsche as a lonely, miserable, self-immolating, recluse whose “external intellectual work…and inner life coalesce completely.” In some commentaries, this image prevails yet today, but its accuracy is also a matter of debate.
