
Friedrich Nietzsche’s three steps to a meaningful life
The story of the camel, the lion, and the child In 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche was a man who had known the depths of despair. Nietzsche had lived with several health problems, mental health issues, and post-traumatic stress syndrome from serving as a medical orderly in the Franco-Prussian War (during which he had also contracted diphtheria and dysentery). The final straw was that the woman he loved deeply, whom he had proposed to several times, had abandoned him. Nietzsche was