Nietzsche on Nihilism and the Death of God

• Nietzsche waged war against nihilism, or "the highest values (truth, religion, morality) devaluing themselves", which is found in the Judeo-Christian tradition and philosophy of Plato
• "God is dead"; an echo of Hegel and Martin Luther, meaning that we don't believe in god anymore even if we claim to. It's Christianity as a hypocrisy/herd behaviour/lacks moral sanction
• The ultimate value's life itself
• Attacks anti-life/"otherwordly", which can be traced back to Plato : he rejects some other existence such as heaven (we should live in the NOW)
• Offers us an alternative to Jesus in the form of the Persian prophet Zarathustra who preaches the this-wordly
• Epistemological nihilism = there is no truth/facts, only interpretations
• Perspectivism = the view that our knowledge of the world and of ourselves is gleaned through one or another perspective, a particular point of view --> no objectivity/facts
• The more perspectives, the better perception we have
• Nietzsche's view of truth is primarily pragmatic = what is true is what works.