Dr. J. Budziszewski

Nietzsche has to be studied because as nearly as anyone has come to making an argument for that for which you cannot make an argument because it's incoherent.

As nearly as you can come to making all these incoherent arguments and embracing the incoherency, Nietzsche has done it.

The interesting thing about Nietzsche is that he says a lot of things by indirection.

He doesn't say, here's my proof that there is no meaning.

What he says is, and this was very much my mood as a nihilist, you know, we've seen through this now.

He doesn't say, here is an argument against existence and against the existence of God.

What he does is he has his character say to another character in this book, Zarathustra, have you not heard that God is dead?

Notice that that's an interesting way of putting it.

He doesn't say there is no God.

says god is dead now of course that kind of a statement slaps a christian in the face because you think god is eternal inextinguishable he cannot die but the point of this was that if according to nietzsche i mean he denies among other things the he refuses to acknowledge even even a real distinction between the observer and the the observed the the the when he says you have to make up your own values you have to have your own tablet of values

What most simple-minded relativists think is I can have my own values and leave reality as it is.

But no, for your values to be made up to suit, you'd have to be able to make up reality too.

And Nietzsche really thinks that that's sort of what we do every day.

God was just one of those things that was real, quote-unquote, reality.

only insofar as anything else is real, quote unquote, and that's that we've constructed it.

It's part of this manifold of interpretations, of interpretations, of interpretations.

He's part of it.

And so when we stop constructing him, he isn't there anymore.

So he's died.

Now that's