Study On Nietzschean Anti-metaphysical Thoughts

On the whole, the western world paid great attentions to the philosophy of Nietzsche. The German philosopher Heidegger firstly clarified the basic train of the Nietzschean philosophy and asserted that Nietzsche was the last metaphysician in western history and traditional metaphysics ended to Nietzsche. French philosopher Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, two modernist masters of Nietzschean admirers, gave new interpretation and understanding on the philosophy of Nietzsche. Both their entire works and lives were deeply influenced by Nietzschean anti-metaphysical thoughts. Different interpretations of these masters and the antagonism of these surfaces didn’t lead to contradictions or shallows, but it made Nietzsche’s philosophy more and more attractive and inherent potential. Nietzsche recognizes the traditional metaphysics as Platonism, and his anti-metaphysics means opposing Platonism. The weapon of anti-Platonism is "the hammer". In his early thought, it mainly should be expressed as the Dionysian spirit; At a later stage, it mainly should be expressed as "the doctrine of Eternal Return" and "the will to power" thought. Platonism inevitably slides into "nihilism" at last. So, Nietzsche opposes the nihilism too. Nietzsche’s anti-nihilism relies on synthesizing various dimensions of his ideas. These not only include his early tragic idea, but also include the latter part of "the doctrine of Eternal Return","the will to power" thought, the theory of "superman" and the slogan of "revaluation of all values". The most positive results of Nietzsche’s efforts to overcome nihilism can be expressed as follows:to get rid of the narrow ideological perspective of Platonism, opening up a variety of possibilities for thinking life.