ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some closing thoughts of the key concepts covered in this book. Nietzsche can be seen as a Janus-like figure, presenting us with two faces: one turned towards the ancients, the gods, the rhythms of nature, the sweetening balms of the arts and the encircling lifeworld, which keeps our horizons securely grounded in tradition; one turned to the future, the heavens, the infinite, the inhuman, the excoriating power of reason, technology, science and that which is hardest in human hearts and most uncompromising in human heads. These two sides within Nietzsche reflect the two sides of the great cultural conflict with which he tried to come to terms, and which constitutes the problem of nihilism: the eclipse of the traditional, mythic, religious and artistic worldview by the scientific, rationalist, demythologizing one. Certainly Nietzsche did not think all of the problems that remain to be thought; certainly his works contain many dead ends and infertile ciphers.
