/lit/ - Literature

>>16764656
I would reckon that for Nietzsche starting with the Greeks is the way to go. However to truly understand Stirner and Nietzsche's influences from Schopenhauer. You have to read into the Hindus and Chinese as well. I would think Stirner's conception of The Unique is similar to the Daoist concept of The Dao. Also there was a Chinese Thinker very similar to Stirner named Yang Zhu from the Liezi.

>>16658233
Untrue, you can value spiritual and aesthetic properties as well if you are nihilistic in an active sense and not a passive sense. Active as to mean to do something in reaction towards nihilism. This could mean to find your own virtues and fulfill them based on your own authentic values. You can find these virtues in heroes you believe in within history, reality, myth, religion, or in fiction.