| − | Friedrich Nietzsche has argued in his book ''The Will To Power'', that the only way to overcome nihilism is experience first-hand the abyss of nihilism, then by value positing. Friedrich Nietzsche calls these kind of men who can overcome nihilism, the Übermensch. | + | Friedrich Nietzsche saw two kinds of nihilism in the world; pessimistic and joyous. Pessimistic nihilism was that created by the death of God in the minds of men, and corresponds to the idea that life is without meaning or value. Joyous nihilism was that experienced by those few who, like him, experienced the loss of an externally created and imposed moral structure as a liberation and not a great loss, and was the seed that let the herald Nietzsche proclaim the coming of the Übermensch. |