Analysis Of Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra

The concept of transformation and self overcoming are potent topics, the likes of which, are and have been heavily debated by the best academics known to humanity. It is substantially evident that challenging events, especially when supported by others, allow an individual to grow in personality, spirit, and resilience. The latter can be achieved by turning to the right support and resources in order to vanquish one’s negative circumstances, overcome the pressures of society, and develop a unique and personal set of values. These concepts are explored in “The Story of Tom Brennan” by J. C. Burke, and Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”. The characters, Tom and Zarathustra, deal with similar ideas in their respective stories. Tom

Friedrich Nietzsche, a prominent German philosopher in the 19th century is one of the most well-read philosophers of the past two-centuries. His ideas regarding morality and nature continue to be discussed and debated to this day among scholars of all beliefs.

Nietzsche was a revolutionary author and philosopher who has had a tremendous impact on German culture up through the twentieth century and even today. Nietzsche's views were very unlike the popular and conventional beliefs and practices of his time and nearly all of his published works were, and still are, rather controversial, especially in On the Genealogy of Morals. His philosophies are more than just controversial and unconventional viewpoints, however; they are absolutely extreme and dangerous if taken out of context or misinterpreted. After Nietzsche's death it took very little for his sister to make some slight alterations to his works to go along with Nazi ideology.

According to Nietzsche’s assertions in the first two essays of On the Genealogy of Morals, human beings suffer because they have lost the ability to enjoy life to its fullest extent. A significant shift in morals occurred from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans, who carried out good deeds with a surplus of energy simply because they could afford to do so, to the predominantly Judeo-Christian era of self-repression. This transition demonstrates a decline in our ability to make sense of our lives and understand our true human purpose. Nietzsche suggests that we have become out of touch with the truth – we are no longer present in our lives. He urges us to recognize the social constraints to which we sometimes unknowingly submit

On the other hand, Nietzsche believes that there are no rules to the life of human beings and only the coward cling to religion in the hope of finding something which is not there. He believes that truth is all that is needed and nothing is more powerful than self belief in truth.

All of this is, of course, a variety of nihilism. Nietzsche insists that there are no rules for human life, no absolute values, no certainties on which to rely. If truth can be achieved at all, it can come only from an individual who purposefully disregards everything that is traditionally taken to be "important." Such a super-human person {Ger. Übermensch}, Nietzsche supposed, can live an authentic and successful human life.

Looking into the concept of the “Ubermensch,” or the “Overman” complex sets the stage for a mortal man to move past God, and develop his own values. These values will be independent of others. They can also affect history indefinitely, if proper precautions are not followed. Nietzsche’s view of this super human trait comes with several thoughts, or guidelines that should be shared before looking into history at people who viewed themselves as the “over man”

I find Nietzsche completely different from the other philosopher. His beliefs are very intriguing. I think he was an unhappy, miserable, and lonely person who hardships had some influence on how he felt about philosophy and life. If he had friends, a close family or even a positive person around him, I believe his philosophy may be different. There are some philosophers that I agreed with and some that I didn’t. His philosophy I found the same. I did not agree with his rejection of religion and God. I believe that religion does not sugar coat anything but teaches us how to truly live life virtuous. Christianity does not keep us from changing our lives for the better. It promotes improvement. It seems he had no faith. I think if he had faith

Yo, I hope you are ready to learn some really cool shizniz about how we understand other shizniz by interpreting that shizniz. Over this past term, I have learned how individuals form an interpretation. Although learning about how to interpret an interpretation was an interesting experience, it also was pretty confusing; therefore, I am going to discuss what I have learned in a way that I hope will be fun to read and easy to understand. In this, you will read about concepts introduced by Nietzsche, reinforced by Gadamer, and challenged by Schott. In each of their articles highlighted key points of how to best understand a concept called “the hermeneutical claim to universality”, which can be defined as a notion of first having an interpretation of what one wishes to understand. Basically, this means if we want to understand anything we are trying to find an interpretation.

Nietzsche discusses the sensualities of love and hostility spiritually. He describes love as a “great triumph,” but love can connect with hostility defines as acting and thinking oppositely of what is told to do. In doing so, he claims that the church as always promoted hostility to maintain self-preservation in both church and politics.

We have grown weary of man. Nietzsche wants something better, to believe in human ability once again. Nietzsche’s weariness is based almost entirely in the culmination of ressentiment, the dissolution of Nietzsche’s concept of morality and the prevailing priestly morality. Nietzsche wants to move beyond simple concepts of good and evil, abandon the assessment of individuals through ressentiment, and restore men to their former wonderful ability.

Throughout our lives, we all try to convince others what’s right and what’s wrong. We spend our entire lives trying to convince each other that there is only one certain way to do things and that way is the only one way, which is the right way. We only see the world the way we are, which is individually. By Nietzsche's saying, if we want to view the world in different ways then we must look

Nietzsche shares a similar view of man. The important thing in man is his potential; man is striving but for something different, Ubermensch or superman. It represents man constantly striving to overcome himself and become a man whose values are independent from societal conceptions of good and evil. Ubermensch must be willing and able to reject what he is now to become something different and never become content with present values. Similar to Kierkegaard, Nietzsche sees life as a series of stages that take man from the herd to Ubermensch. The first step for man to achieve Ubermensch is to overcome a collective herd view of values because they are not bridges to Ubermensch. Once this herd is overcome, man can begin to concentrate on overcoming himself.

In the “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, written by the 19th century philosopher Nietzsche, we are presented with many sermons that are structure similar to parables from the Lutheran Bible. These sermons are given to us by the main character, Zarathustra, on our quest to find the overman (ubermench). Zarathustra uses many characters to present stories about the flaws of humanity and how we are to get better. In “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, Zarathustra uses the character of an ass (donkey) that was first presented to us through the sermon of “Talking to the kings” and plays a major role in the later novel. The Ass is used as an idol that many of Zarathustra’s guests praise as a God. The utilization of the Ass as an idol of worship is Nietzsche’s criticism on how Christians worship their God.

Nietzsche introduced an idea of philosophy that was more than simply a rational groundwork of existence or as the pursuit of an absolute truth. Instead, he suggested that philosophy is something to be respected as a personal interpretation of life and all its faculties (morality, existentialism etc.) and that was – for him - focused on life affirmation. Furthermore, this thinking implies that philosophy is not a be all and end all answer to life’s questions; rather, it is merely a