A Comparative Study of the Meaning of Life from the Perspective of Allameh Tabatabai and Friedrich Nietzsche

Subject Areas : Philosophy

Marjan Askaribabadi ¹ , Faraj Alla Barati ² , Godarz Shateri ³ , Sadeg Khoshkho ⁴

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Received: 2021-10-30 Accepted : 2022-08-16 Published : 2022-08-23

Keywords: meaning of life, Nabcheh, Allameh Tabatabai, death of God, Will to Power,

Abstract :

One of the common concerns of Allameh Tabatabai and Friedrich Nietzsche has been the meaning of life; Allameh meant the purpose of life to have a purpose in life, but Nietzsche considered the meaning of life to be equivalent to value. Each has answered the question of whether life has meaning according to their own intellectual foundations, Allameh's approach in confronting the meaning of supernatural life and Nietzsche believes in nature's approach. Allameh proves the purposefulness of the created world, including man, through the attribute of God's wisdom. He believes that living in the light of belief in God and adherence to morality and human behavior makes sense, but Nietzsche denies God and considers religion the cause of human misery and he believes that the more religious a person is, the weaker and more incapable he is. He expresses the meaningless result of life in the form of nihilism. He expresses the meaningless result of life in the form of nihilism and divides it into active nihilism and passive nihilism. Both philosophers believe in the meaning of life, except that Allameh believes that man discovers the meaning of life, but Nietzsche says that man forges the meaning of life.