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Does anyone know how Nietzsche's philosophy of postmodernism has contributed to the development of today's society?

The impact of Nietzsche's writings on subsequent generations has undoubtedly been immense. His ideas had an unmistakable impact in that they subverted Western Christian moral thought and traditional values, revealing the spiritual crisis that mankind must face after the death of God. Jaspers said that Nietzsche and Kierkegaard brought a tremor to Western philosophy, the final significance of which has yet to be valorized. a whole generation of thinkers and artists at the beginning of the twentieth century found in Nietzsche's writings the concepts and imagery that had inspired their richly creative works. You are talking about the relevance of philosophy and religion, philosophy and religion generally only spiritual significance, the development of society is subtle, improve the quality of human well. I think an economically powerful country must pay attention to culture, but it is difficult to really do a realistic measurement. Add: This influence is concentrated in the following four aspects-

First, Nietzsche first from the fact that the Christian faith has been broken (God is dead), leading to the conclusion that all traditional values will collapse (the revaluation of all values).

He pointed out to all Europeans the vacuum of values they were facing. In his time, this revelation might have been seen as alarmist, but in the twentieth century, the masses felt this value vacuum more and more strongly, and spoke more and more frequently of the "homelessness of the modern man".

The value vacuum meant that life had lost its meaning, which had once seemed clear and certain, and so the fallacy of human existence became a theme in modern Western literature and philosophy. The value vacuum also means that there is no transcendent constraint on life, so human freedom, openness and unlimited possibilities of human nature have also become a theme of modern Western literature and philosophy.

Secondly, Nietzsche's conclusion of the relativity of value is further drawn from the collapse of the old value, emphasizing that each person must independently create value for himself, and advocating the supremacy of the individual and self-fulfillment. Although he did not use the term "heterocentricity", he used his own language to expose the fact that traditional civilization has led to the loss of individuality and the loss of self.

Modern Western thought has talked about the "namelessness" of modern man, and has been keen to explore the problem of "alienation," emphasizing the importance of the self, which can be traced in part to him.

Thirdly, Nietzsche was one of the first to reveal the limitations of scientific reason, and he was also the first to explicitly reveal the unconscious realm of the human psyche and to analyze it in detail, an area that many of his predecessors, though not lacking in pioneers, had not addressed as concretely and thoroughly as he had. Nietzsche was the originator of the powerful irrationalist currents that have pervaded all areas of modern Western culture, such as modernist literature and art, Freudian psychoanalysis, the phenomenological movement, existentialist philosophy, and so on.

Fourth, Nietzsche was also one of the founders of modern Western "scholasticism," and he explicitly advocated that philosophy should aim at the search for the meaning of life. His view of human nature, with its transcendence as the keynote, is full of modern characteristics. Before him, although there is Feuerbach first advocate of "philosophical anthropology", but Feuerbach's view of human nature basically falls into the traditional range, not enough to represent the beginning of the modern era.

Some of Nietzsche's specific arguments, including the major ones of the will to power, the superman, and eternal reincarnation, have had little effect on modern Western thought, and only a localized impact.

The real significance of Nietzsche lies in the fact that he was the first to reveal the basic situation of modern Western philosophy, and that he posed and seriously pondered the major questions that have agitated the modern Western mind. It has been said that "Nietzsche spoke of problems that are accessible to everyone, especially to those who have lost their way in the modern world."