From Positive Nihilism To Critical Nihilism

From Nietzsche's aspect, the western culture is a culture of Nihilism, which means depreciation to the highest value, that is denial to the will to the life right. By means of positive nihilism, Nietzsche insisted that human beings could get over the death of the God. However, the truth he applied to was also nihilism. Therefore, as the treatment of the critical nihilism had been the bottomless abyss itself. Nietzsche's philosophy exercise a lasting influence on Baudrillard's thinking. After the historical analysis of the Simulacra culture of the western. Baudrillard believed that everything is being passing away. Critical nihilism was just expecting the mutation of the society on the backdrop of the hapless reality.This paper gives a clear description of the thread of the form of Nietzsche's and Baudrillard's nihilism. By catching the essence of the Christian morality and modern civilization from critical nihilism. Nietzsche turned to deny the "real world", which was promised by Plato's metaphysics. He intended to create a new kinds of value, namely Superman, by chance of nihilism. But he finally couldn't escape from the inner conflict of positive nihilism. Baudrillard made an investigation based on the relationship between consumption society and medium society. He considered that the consumption was only a symbolized operation system controlled by the medium. With the symbolization of the society, the true world disappeared and simulacra had already been non-value hyperreality society in the medium. The masses resist against the society silently. Only by adopting critical nihilism, can we realized to rescue the society. Bandrillard was opposed to the traditional nihilism in the concept of truth, creation and right for the logic generated by them was compliance to the capitalism. From value creation to the non-value, from the mode of disapperence to the mode of generation, Baudrillard turned to entirely nihilism, which means the crisis of modern society deepened further. Meanwhile it indicated that the road for liberty had became longer.