Frederick Nietzche
Nietzche aims to get us to appreciate a very different conception of morality, one born within us, not imposed on us, one that celebrates life and doesn't promise another one, one that acknowledges the unavoidability of suffering in life without drawing the pessimistic conclusion : life is no good.
Amor fati
The love of fate can simply refer to a free and easy attitude toward life – free of anxiety and worry, that is, easy in acceptance of circumstances and other people.
To love fate is to accept calmly and even enthusiastically whatever happens, whatever people do.
Nietzche further defines amor fati;
“One wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary...but love it. The love of fate is the love of necessity, a keen eye for essences”.
Destiny allows multiple interpretations. Fate has seemed like a mandatory plot outline, engraved in the heavens.
Heraclitus insisted 'character is fate', and, so, not so much a narrative imposed from the outside, but an itinerary determined from the inside, by the person and her heredity, upbringing, situation and response.
Do not regret or resent. Do not worry or live in fear. Do not curse your life, but accept it, whatever it may be. For it is life itself, not the pleasures and successes that are enjoyed in life, that give life its ultimate meaning.
Among other affirmative doctrines Nietzche sums up amor fati as something of a mantra, part of a continuous 'pep talk' he gave to himself and to us, too.
What Nietzche Really Said- Solomon and Higgins
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