Becoming a Yes-Sayer: Psychedelics, Nietzsche, and the Affirmation of Life
To Friedrich Nietzsche, the correct response to the trials, tribulations, and tragedies of life was one of embrace: a yes-saying attitude. This has since become known as the Nietzschean affirmation of life, and we can juxtapose it with the Schopenhauerian rejection of life: a no-saying to suffering. Nietzsche championed “Saying yes to life even in…
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