Friedrich Nietzsche (n.) is not afraid of conscious exaggeration and one-sided formulations of his thought, believing that in this way he can most clearly set in relief what in his vision and in his inquiry is different from the run-of-the-mill.
Friedrich Nietzsche (n.) is a metaphysician (just like all philosophers since Plato) who is unaware of the truth and concealment of being.
Friedrich Nietzsche (n.) is a nihilist in that his attempts to overcome nihilism renders explicit the destructive tendency of Western thought by conceiving the world merely in terms that serve to enhance the apparent power and mastery of the thinker.
Friedrich Nietzsche (n.) is the last metaphysician, the thinker who exhausts the possibilities of Western metaphysics.
Friedrich Nietzsche (n.) is a metaphysician, even if he may be the last metaphysician, because he sets up a distinction between becoming and being when the very distinction between the two is but a metaphysical proposition concealing a deeper ontology.
Friedrich Nietzsche (n.) is a metaphysician because he interprets all beings as manifestations of the will to power.
Friedrich Nietzsche (n.) is a metaphysical thinker because, since there is no goal and nothing more outside the will to power, its self-overpowering cannot be endlessly new but must turn eternally back to itself.
Friedrich Nietzsche's (n.) thinking, as the consummation of Western metaphysics, points to this unthought dimension distinctly and confusedly at the same time.
Friedrich Nietzsche (n.) is philosophy’s Moses; by taking metaphysics to its extreme limits, limits that explain the entire course of the history of metaphysics, he is able to point to, but not enter, the promised land.