What is the dominant thought of Nietzsche? How to y understand?

Christian culture advocates the supremacy of reason, the supremacy of God, the power over all. In the Socratic philosophy of culture, man's natural vitality was suppressed. Man has become a slave of God, a rational being, and a machine with no vitality, no personality, and no creativity.

What kind of way should people live? How can people show their main value? This series of problems caused disputes in the thinking world at that time. Nietzsche found in the spirit of the spirit of wine and god a "sense of overflowing life and power" hidden in the human life, which is the original natural vitality of human beings. Therefore, he declared to the world with passion: "God is dead!" This was a heavy bomb, which shocked the silent Western thought world and created an uproar. God is dead, what about mankind? Since God is dead, mankind should welcome the new era. Nietzsche's philosophy attaches importance to the value of human beings and their liberation, believing that only human life itself is the criterion for judging all values, and that human beings must transcend themselves, have a goal higher than their own, and raise the essence of human life high, in order to truly reflect the value of human beings. God is dead, and in this godless world, human beings will re-evaluate everything and restore the will to live, that is, the strong will in Nietzsche's doctrine. This Greek spirit of tragedy disappeared as a result of the Christian theology of the Middle Ages and the modern rationalist movement. With the death of the imaginary "God", what is the only reality we face? "Life! Re-thinking everything and valuing everything from "life" is the basic direction of Nietzsche's thought. So, what is life, and how can the shadow of God be removed in order to rethink life itself? What do we think from life itself? These questions will be the concrete signposts for us to think about Nietzsche's thought.

Nietzsche's "will to power", it is mainly a "force" of "creation". Nietzsche often emphasized that "will" means "creation". The true sense of "creation" is to create something from nothing. The "will" is not "nothing", but "something"; a special kind of "something". It is a special kind of "yes", an "overflowing" "yes". The "will" is a "force" because of its "overflowing". This "force" is sensual, real, not ideological-spiritual, but material. In terms of its other "force", willpower to obtain the dominant position, so it is "power", so Nietzsche this will is called "power will". Although Nietzsche opposes the abstract theory of existence, he does not oppose the existence of "change", and even thinks that only "change" can "exist". This "existence of change" is the "eternal cycle". Thus, from Nietzsche's "will", we realize something that is both "active" and "sensual" like reason. The "will" is the deepest basis of all perceptual-empirical science.

Nietzsche's philosophy is positive and exuberant, and he believed that hardship, pain, and illness can be used as a powerful stimulus to life, as a test and a challenge to the vitality of life. Instead, a life of smooth sailing would weaken one's vitality. Incredibly, he was strong enough to turn anything dangerous, difficult and frightening into something favorable for him, including illness. This was his strong vitality, and this was his strong will. Nietzsche's strong will is, in the end, the vigorous vitality and creativity of man who dares to fight against pain and disaster. He believed that as long as people in the process of conquering pain to carry forward the power of life, will eventually win the greatest achievements and the greatest joy of life. At the same time, people in the struggle with pain can experience the vitality of life and the great power of resistance. Nietzsche repeatedly emphasized the uncertainty and plasticity of human nature, and that people can change themselves, shape themselves, and create their own nature. Emphasizing self-creation is Nietzsche's aesthetic human attitude. It is because of the undefined nature of human beings that it is possible to shape a healthier and stronger personality through self-creation.

Nietzsche once proudly said that he did not have any pathological characteristics, even if he was seriously ill, he was never sick. Indeed, his body was sick, but his will was healthy. Nietzsche fearlessly opposed the absolute dominance of traditional philosophical metaphysics and epistemological system; opposed the thousands of years of philosophical purely rational observation of the universe, the use of logical reasoning procedures to establish a large rationality-centered discursive system; his love of life, and advocate the vitality of the vigorous life force and willpower, and then affirmed the value of the world, and the world as the only real world. He injected fresh blood into European classical philosophy. In this sense, Nietzsche opened a new era in the history of human thought. After Nietzsche, the traditional philosophical system collapsed, and philosophy was transformed from non-existence to existence, and returned to this shore from the other side.

The influence of Nietzsche's philosophy on China is great. As early as the beginning of the 20th century, Nietzsche's philosophy greatly influenced Chinese thought. His will to power encouraged people to be creative, to be strong, not weak. Nietzsche's doctrine emphasizes the value and liberation of human beings, focuses on the purpose of life, and pays attention to the unceasing creative power of the essence of life. The ideal "superman" in Nietzsche's doctrine can motivate people to keep striving and creating to realize their own value. According to Mr. Lu Xun, the reason for the stagnation of Chinese culture is that it lacks a vigorous personality and the power to forge ahead. Chinese people have long been subjected to Confucianism's mediocrity thought, doing things only to make no mistakes, no mess, no faults and no less than, to keep within a stable range. They tend to be conservative, opposed to enterprising. Such a mindset is not conducive to innovation, enterprise, and even less conducive to adapt to the current international competitive situation. Therefore, to realize socialist modernization, it is not possible to rely on this kind of thinking. Nietzsche's enterprising spirit can exactly give us the nutrition in this regard.

Another important proposition of Nietzsche is "God is dead", which requires people to reassess all values, and has a strong anti-traditional spirit. This is a strong antitraditional spirit, which is similar to our traditional thinking. Because the Chinese traditionally do not attach importance to the other side of the world, only care about this side of the world, so there is no God in their hearts, which is equivalent to "God is dead"; but they are looking for a living God in real life - the saints. But they are looking for a living God - a saint - in real life. To a certain extent, the saints in reality are even more terrible than God. Because God only exists in people's conception, he will not have any imperfection, but the real "God" can not be the best and the most beautiful. But the reality of "God" can not be the best and the most beautiful person, but want people to worship him, learn from him, this will be a problem. His mistakes also want people to imitate, to learn, this is very unwise. For this reason, Chinese people need to break the worship of authority and blind obedience. From the shadow of authority to jump out, so that they can have their own creative space. Nietzsche's philosophy gives us a dose of sobriety, let us reflect on our thinking tradition.