Throughout his writings Nietzsche focused on a key issue where one relinquishes absolute truths, and moves towards a better freer life, with a sort of constructive nihilism. This topic held true to his many themes such as, the eternal recurrence of the same, redemption myths, teleological narratives, the death of God, genealogies of God, Perspectivism, and the path to the Overhuman. This movement towards positive nihilism can be placed in a sort of sequential episodes of events, beginning with the recognition of redemption myths and concluding when one becomes an Overhuman. The purpose of this paper is to show how this progression leads one to be come the Overhuman.
In the beginning most people hold true to some sort of absolute truth, that there is a God, Allah, scientific reasoning, or some transcendent "thing" that governs or watches over their every move, and lays forth to them an unquestionable set of rules that they should live by, in order to move towards a better state of being, i.e., Heaven. However, this belief creates a sort of Romanticism inside of them, or a longing for that better place. In concurrence with this Romanticized view people begin to create redemption myths, the way their life is versus the way it should be, they begin to feel that the world they are in is not where they want to be. To escape they fashion teleological narratives, or salvation directed paths for life. Consequently, these notions place on the world, as it is, a lack of meaningfulness, or an imperfection of things, as they strive to reject what is shown to them in appearances, and attempt to find what is real. For Nietzsche, this being "trapped" in a world of appearances causes a great suffering and dissatisfaction with life, and this suffering leads towards his concept of the "ascetic ideal." People in their attempt to justify their anguish and distress apply to them meaning, that is to say that they become necessary evils on the path to salvation.
