"Destiny love"is a Latin phrase that derives from Stoic philosophy.
Nietzsche criticized Stoicism and was right"Destiny love"Presenting his own opinion, he eloquently argues about the transformative nature of this idea.
Destiny love"It means that anyone who practices it will embrace what comes through them.
Winning the lottery, losing your job, going bankrupt, all of these will be the same"Destiny love"spirit to face.
The Stoic philosopher Epictetudes proposed the dichotomy of control, suggesting that we focus only on what we can influence, and learn to tolerate everything else.
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: some things are within our control, and some things are not.
It is only when you face up to this basic principle and learn to distinguish between what you can control and what you can't, that inner peace and outer efficiency are possible.
Epictetus suggests that instead of fighting the things we are powerless to change, we should adjust our mindset and accept things as they are.
Don't seek everything that happens as you want it to be, but hope that everything happens as it is.
Marcus Aurelius, in the Meditations, describes a happy, kind man in similar language: he loves and welcomes everything that happens to him, and all that fate may bring.
Nietzsche: Yes"Destiny love"of the eloquent narrative
Destiny love"The ideas conveyed were discussed in the Stoics, and"Destiny love"Its popularity is due to Nietzsche's use of it.
In his work, Nietzsche wrote: "I want to learn more and more to see what is necessary in things as beautiful;In this way, I will be the one who makes things beautiful.
The love is deep, the responsibility is keen: let this be my love in the future!I don't want to go to war on ugly things.
I don't want to blame;I don't even want to blame the accusers.
Watching from the sidelines is my only denial. All in all, one day, I just want to make one statement"Yes"of people.
My definition of human greatness is:"Destiny love"。
One doesn't want to be any different, doesn't want to move forward, doesn't want to go backwards, doesn't want to be eternal.
Not just to bear what is necessary, not to cover up what is necessary, but to love what is necessary.
How do we embrace the terrible events?
We are right on"Destiny love"One immediate reaction might be, how could this idea be applicable in the face of a terrible event?
Of course, when the world says to us"Yes"When we can say to the world"Yes", but what about those who are living in constant suffering, or trapped in a war zone?
They should"Love"Their fate?
Neither the Stoics nor Nietzsche took it lightly"Love"consequences.
It's not an idea that comes from luxury;In fact, it's an idea designed to deal with hardship.
Although the Stoics and Nietzsche were in"Destiny love"but their agreement is only superficial, because they are actually explaining the key parts of the fate equation in diametrically opposed ways.
According to the Stoics, the universe was arranged according to God's will.
When we embrace destiny in this way, we are embracing something purposeful, rationally ordered, something more intelligent, divine that transcends us.
A kind of optimism can be found in the Stoic embrace of fate.
We are in the grasp of rational and orderly nature, so we should adjust our judgment of what happens to us accordingly.
Nietzsche's cosmology, rooted in Heraclitus's eternal chaotic flow, states that the universe is not rational or purposeful, but disordered and purposeless.
There is no grand teleology to comfort us, only an endless, turbulent flow.
Embracing fate under such conditions is a completely different proposition, for Nietzsche"Destiny love"It means acknowledging the purposelessness of the chaos that exists, but affirming it anyway.
Nietzsche rejected the Stoic-optimistic teleology and thus thus"Destiny love"This concept is more challenging.
Nietzsche asks us to admit that everything is for no reason and that the universe has no purpose, but that we still have to love our lives.
How the Stoics and Nietzsche dealt with suffering
When"Destiny love"When in harmony with events that cause significant suffering, they are right"Love"The difference between the concepts is really apparent.
The Stoics would remind us that the mental pain we experience is the result of our judgment of the situation, not the situation itself.
What hurts us is our wrong, irrational belief in the event, not the event itself.
Relieving suffering means correcting our false beliefs, rejecting irrational passions, and looking at our situation rationally and clearly.
In the case of death, this means recognizing that we are all part of the natural order of reason and that existence is only a temporary gift.
Now, you want me to leave the bazaar, so I'm gone, and I don't feel anything but thank you for allowing me to share the celebration with you.
Life is a page, and like all events, it must end.
We and our loved ones must one day return the time the universe has given us.
Don't say it under any circumstances"What did I lose", but only to say"I returned it"。
Is your child dead?No, I went back.
Is your wife dead?No, she was sent back.
If you want your children, wife, or friends to live forever, you're a fool.
It takes power beyond you and is not a gift you can have or give.
Of course, adopting such an attitude is easier said than done, and it takes years of thinking like a Stoic to exert this rational control over our judgments.
The ultimate Stoic approach to suffering is that we should rationally reconstruct our judgments until irrational suffering is dissolved.
Stoic"Destiny love"It means to give in to the rational order of nature and to adjust our judgment.
In contrast, Nietzsche rejects Stoic's optimistic teleology.
Nietzsche discusses the Stoics of Heraclitus, making a superficial reinterpretation of his basic aesthetic perception of the cosmic game into vulgar considerations of useful purposes for the world, especially those for the benefit of humanity.
His physics, in their hands, turned into a crude optimism.
In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche claimed, although the Stoics claimed their philosophy"Nature-based", but they first infuse nature with an optimistic teleology.
So you want to'Go with nature'land life?
Oh, you noble Stoics, what a deception this is!
Imagine something like nature, profligate in vain, indiscriminately indifferent, devoid of purpose and consideration, devoid of mercy and justice, and at the same time fertile, barren and uncertain, taking indifference itself as strength.
How can you live according to this indifference?
Isn't life all about wanting to be something outside of this nature?
Isn't life all about evaluating, preference, being unfair, being restricted, wanting to be different?
Suppose your command"Live with nature"Basically the same"Live with life", so how can you not do it?
But in reality, the situation is quite different: when you pretend to be happy to interpret your laws in nature, you want the opposite.
Your arrogance wants to impose your morals and ideals on nature, and you demand nature"Meets Stoia"You want everything to exist in your image.
Because of your love of truth, you have been so persistent, so persistent, so hypnotically rigid, that you have forced yourself to hold a false, Stoic, view of nature that you can no longer see it any other way, and a certain outrageous arrogance has finally given you a mad hope.
Because you know how to tyrannize yourself, Stoic is self-tyranny, so naturally you let yourself be tyrannized.
Although the Stoics claimed themselves"Go with nature", but all they can claim is that they want the universe to exist somehow, and they live as if the universe really is.
The philosophy of the Stoics did not originate from nature, but infused it with their philosophy.
They assume that nature is reasonably ordered, and then claim that we should"Keeping up with nature"and abandon all irrationality.
Nietzsche argues that this belief in the order of the universe is not only unjustified, but that the Stoic rejection of suffering is too quick to achieve quick results.
In his notebook, he wrote: The Stoics underestimated the value of pain, excitement and passion.
The Stoics tried to purge us"Irrational"Pain, while Nietzsche argues that once we strip away the Stoic optimism of teleology, suffering can be seen as a real, understandable response to life in a world without order and purpose.
Nietzsche wants us to reconcile pain with"Destiny love"Rather than seeing pain as a mistake that can be corrected, it recognizes that pain plays a necessary and indispensable role in a complete life.
In fact, there can be no greatness without suffering.
Nietzsche wrote: "Examine the lives of the best and richest people and peoples, and ask yourself whether a tree that is supposed to grow into a towering tree can be protected from bad weather and storms."
Whether misfortune and external resistance, certain hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, toughness, greed and violence do not belong to the favorable conditions, without which even the great growth of virtue is almost impossible.
In his book, Nietzsche writes that he reflects on the role that suffering plays in his own life: Is it not more indescribable how grateful I am for my chronic illness than I am for my health?
I owe it to higher health, and I owe my philosophy to it.
If there are things in our lives that we hold dear, then Nietzsche wants us to realize that we can't just value those things and not value everything that brings them.
In his notes, he wrote: Suppose we say at a certain moment"Yes", then we don't just say it to ourselves"Yes", also to the whole of existence"Yes"。
For neither ourselves nor things exist in isolation.
If our soul vibrates only once, ringing the chord of happiness, then all eternity, is a necessary condition for the production of this event, as we say"Yes"At this moment, all eternity is contained, redeemed, proven and affirmed.
Hence Nietzsche's"Destiny love"It means recognizing the interconnectedness of everything.
Happiness does not exist in isolation, and there can be no greatness without suffering.
If we are to affirm life, we must affirm the totality of life.
Only great suffering can finally liberate the spirit. I doubt that this pain will make us become"Better"；But I know it makes us more profound.
While pain is not entirely pleasurable, it gives us a tragic wisdom.
Perhaps the true measure of a person is how much truth he can endure.
My definition of human greatness is:"The love is deep, and the responsibility is keen": One does not want to be any different, does not want to move forward, does not want to go backwards, does not want eternity.
It's not just about enduring what is necessary, it's not about covering up what is necessary, it's about loving what is necessary.
Nietzsche in"Eternal repetition"These ideas are further developed in the doctrine, which challenges our way of life and makes us want to live the same life over and over again.
Every heartbreak, every joy, every long boredom, repeated.
Only when we say to the repetition of eternity"Yes"Only then can we truly meet Nietzsche"Destiny love"Challenges presented.
The Stoics advised us to do it"Love House & Wu", because at the end of the day, we are in the hands of rational and orderly nature.
We should practice virtue in everything that is within our control, and abandon irrational emotions in everything that is outside our control, and this is how we conform to and affirm the teleological rational order of nature.
At the same time, Nietzsche opposed the optimistic teleology of the Stoics.
We must reconcile with necessity, not to give it meaning and purpose in the first place, but to confront it for what it is, without such unreasonable presuppositions.
Stoicism created a teleological order that must be obeyed at the cost of discovering that anything outside of reason is valuable, while Nietzsche sought love for fate, neither assuming prior ends nor withdrawing from the world.