Nietzsche believed that without a divine foundation, society faced a crisis of nihilism where traditional moral values could no longer be objectively justified.

This warning from Beyond Good and Evil suggests that the methods used to defeat monsters can inadvertently transform the hero into a similar villain.

The Übermensch serves as a solution to nihilism by transcending inherited social norms to establish a new, life-affirming morality through the will to power.

Nietzsche called the affirmation of living the same life repeatedly amor fati, or a love of one's fate, regardless of its pain or joy.