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: : : : : : : What did Nietzsche think "progress" was? : : : : The "progression" towards the end of mankind. : : : PROGRESS HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH HIS JOURNEY---NOT MANKIND---HIS GOAL WAS NOT TO TEACH IT ,THIS PROGRESS, FOR IT IS VIRTUALLY UNTEACHABLE. THE PROGRESS WAS HIS LETTING GO AND GOING UP. DOES ANYONE TRULY UNDERSTAND WHAT IS MEANT BY THAT???? : : First of all, lets us all understand this: Nietzschean : : philosophy does not fit within the ideological doctrines : : of the Enlightenment. Therefore: Nietzsche was : : not concerned with the progress of mankind, or, : : for that matter, he was not even concerned with the : : progression of himself. However, an answer can be : : given forth despite the obvious futility: Neitzsche : : was concerned, quite obviously, with the idea of : : the Overman, who was the conqueror of mankind --or, : : more specifically, the destroyer of Christian faith. : : If you refer to Nietzsce's widely-noted paen to the : : eternal recurrence, which was a fundamental means of : : propagation for him, it will be elicidated that, for Nietzsche, : : the goal of man was to create a life that would be worth : : living on a perpetual contiuum. But, as you most likely : : have gleaned, if Neitzsche believes that everything : : that is becoming now, has became, and will, inevitably, : : become again, where is there room for progress? If there : : is an eternity where nothing can change; where the same : : menial occurences reccur over and over, without any : : hope of ever rising above your past existence. It is bleak, : : but, nevertheless, it destroys all concepts. : O'connoly, you must be a professor. Did N believe that one cannot ever better themselves? Is then what you have all you will ever have? Yes, this is rather bleak, but it does make sense. I suppose if there is perpetual existence then one should be careful in there path they chose.

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