Beyond Good and Evil: Nietzsche's Philosophy on Good and Evil

Inspired by Arthur Schopenhauer’s idea the “will to live” and a desire to rebut Christianity’s promotion of morality, Friedrich Nietzsche coined the term “will to power” as the accurate description of man’s driving force. Within Nietzsche’s perspective, “Values did man only assign to things in order to maintain himself - he created only the significance of things, a human significance!” (Thus Spoke Zarathustra 51). This therefore implies that humanity developed values as a means of self-preservation

Perspectivism and Truth in Nietzsche’s Philosophy: A Critical Look at the Apparent Contradiction “There are no truths,” states one. “Well, if so, then is your statement true?” asks another. This statement and following question go a long way in demonstrating the crucial problem that any investigator of Nietzsche’s conceptions of perspectivism and truth encounters. How can one who believes that one’s conception of truth depends on the perspective from which one writes (as Nietzsche

Science, Beyond Good and Evil, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Nietzsche was an existentialist philosopher. Extentialism is all about an individual. Social institutions such as religion traditionally impose values on people who accept these values as inherently good and worthy of pursuing. However, in Nietzsche’s world, God is dead and can no longer provide

Nietzsche’s overman has the right to make promises because he, according to Nietzsche, is the only being who is able to keep those promises. For Nietzsche, an overman has the strength of character: the reliability and regularity to be able to make promises (“Second essay: ‘Guilt’, ‘bad conscience’ and related matters” 36). Nietzsche connects the would promise with the word responsibility, and the importance of that in a man who has the ability to make promises. Nietzsche refers to the ability

emphatic line. But for those who have read Friedrich Nietzsche, this may sound familiar. Thus Spake Zarathustra, one of Nietzsche’s most well-known works, opens with an almost identical image, namely, a man at the peak of a mountain shouting his convictions at sun, whom he refers to as “thou exuberant star.”(Zarathustra, 53). During the perid in which Marinetti wrote the Manifesto, Nietzsche’s works were gaining popularity in Europe, particularly among those who considered themselves “revolutionaries.” Thus

essence of life. For Nietzsche, “we are simply random gatherings of molecules that cohere and experience consciousness for a short time before dissolving again into nothingness” (Backman, 860). An assorted collection of Nietzsche’s texts, including The Gay Science and ‘Good and Evil,’ ‘Good and Bad,’ suggest that Nietzsche would be inordinately condemnatory of the present state of the West, incredulous to the false notion– myth¬– of progress. Undergirded by democracy, “a political system that gives fools

Socrates makes the claim that “no harm can befall a good person in this life or the next” (Socrates). This means that bad things cannot happen to good people if they love God. If he is a good person in life, then he will go to Heaven and will be at a certain gain in the afterlife. If he has faith in the gods, then no harm will come to him. The readings, “Beyond Good and Evil” and “The Birth of Tragedy” are written by Friedrich Nietzsche, and have diverse ways of speaking of God then Blaise Pascal

Dostoevsky and Nietzsche's Overman       The definition of übermensch, or overman, in Barron's Concise Student's Encyclopedia makes anyone who has read Nietzsche's Zarathustra - even aphoristically, as I tried to do at first - cringe. Barron's Encyclopedia defines an overman as someone who "has his act together and gets things done." Of course, considering that this is a summary of one part of Nietzsche's ideas, and that the encyclopedia reduces his entire philosophy to one short paragraph

Nihilism is a philosophy often associated with Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher. The main idea of Nietzsche’s nihilism is to separate from all of one’s values. This basically means to leave all of one’s knowledge behind and start from scratch. This kind of thinking could also be compared to Nietzsche’s “Beyond Good and Evil.” A part of Nietzsche’s “Beyond Good and Evil” is the free spirit of the soul. This means that the mind should never become too attached to one point of view and must

did not believe that absolute values existed. Rejecting the attempts to articulate the nature of the good life and what constitutes right actions, viewing it as nothing more than the expression of personal prejudice by people who are arrogant enough to believe they can prescribe for all human beings. Nietzsche believed there was only perspectives, no absolute values. Nietzsche’s views on the good life stemmed from his ideology of reality. He observed reality to be fundamentally amoral. That morality