Fiedrich Nietzsche Research Paper

During the latter parts of the Nineteenth Century, the German existentialist philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote a great deal on his ideas of morality, values, and life. His writings were controversial, but they greatly affected European thought. It can be argued that Nietzschean philosophy was a contributing factor in the rise of what is considered our world's most awful empire, the Third Reich.

From the ages of 14 to 19 (1858–1864), Nietzsche attended a first-rate boarding school, Schulpforta, located about 4km from his home in Naumburg, where he prepared for university studies. The school's rigid educational atmosphere was reflected in its long history as a former Cistercian monastery (1137–1540), with buildings that included a 12th century Romanesque chapel and a 13th century Gothic church. At Schulpforta — a school whose alumnae included the German Idealist philosopher, Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) — Nietzsche met his lifelong acquaintance, Paul Deussen (1845–1919), who was confirmed at Nietzsche's side in 1861, and who was to become an Orientalist, historian of philosophy, and in 1911, the founder of the Schopenhauer Society.

Friedrich Nietzsche was brought up in a religious family with houseful of five women. He became interested in philology, which is the study of languages. With philology he also admired Ancient Greek culture, such as their heroic values portrayed by arête. At a young age of 24, Nietzsche also became a professor, however he suffered poor health which led him to retire. Nietzsche’s basic question was what sort of life could be worth living? Nietzsche is often known as a nihilist. Nihilism is the view that nothing really matters. In the past Nietzsche had a nervous breakdown regarding the Nazis. Due to this he spent eleven years of his life being insane and cared for by his sister Elizabeth Forster- Nietzsche. Elizabeth Forster popularized much

In our constantly changing world, situations can arise that need to be dealt with in a logical way to meet everyone’s needs. Although, this is extremely difficult, keeping majority happy, can seem perfect for a country. Friedrich Nietzsche discusses plenty about moral goods, and ultimately tries to develop a critical understanding of morality, in his novel written On the Genealogy of Morality (2007). This can be compared to many situations that have occurred, from citizens revolting against their government to minorities being left out of society. The two articles that I will be comparing to Nietzsche’s ideologies for this assignment are based upon the Burkini ban in France. The first article discusses the causes for this issue and is called

When reading Nietzsche, The Will to Power, he talks about both a “Metaphysical” and “Organic”. The metaphysical that everything from a rock to a person is “the will to power” same as animism, everything has power. I tend to like his theories on organic. Organic is the will to power is specifically related to all life, and only living life. He states on 37 (Spring-Fall 1887) that, “The repudiated world versus an artificially built "true, valuable” one (Nietzsche)”. Stating man has power, man has purpose, and man has ideas. Ideas like what makes a king powerful, is it his ideas or his army? He talks about, “Detached and idealistic, values, instead of dominating and guiding action, turn against action and condemn it.” Which Foucault talks about

Purpose: The purpose of the article is to inform its readers about the fundamentals, cultural influence, and overall global impact of Nietzsche's philosophy. It summarizes Nietzsche's stances on various topics including politics and religion.

Friedrich Nietzsche was born in German in October, 15 1844. Growing up, he was raised in Christian protestant family. He had one younger brother and one younger sister. He looked to his father for a life advice including for religious. But as time passes, his father died and his younger brother followed a year later. After his father died, he lost that father figure. Therefore, As he grew he started to develop new ideas that are taboo during that period. He was mistake for being a Nazi or nihilist, which he wasn’t. It was his sister who edited his work and sold it to the Nazi. He didn’t support nihilist, instead he warned against nihilism, which stated that nothing matters in life.

By briefly examining Nietzsche personal history, one can understand why he criticized the morals of his day, understand what his true concepts were from the false ones created by his sister. When losing his faith in god, he began to re-evaluate the values of his day to try and help those in what he considered a god-less world succeed and live a fulfilled life. By examining some of his work, one can generalize his thoughts on achieving personal achievement, the criticizing of religion, and dismissing the forged work that Nietzsche’s sister tried to publish in his name. Although difficult to understand at first glance, no one can deny that Nietzsche’s controversial work had a profound effect on philosophy, and will continue to inspire those

Following the exposition on the three interpretations of the will to power, this essay will proceed with the contention that the most intelligible reading of Nietzsche will be to reject the ontological doctrine, as well as the empirical doctrine within the biological and physical domain, while accepting a “limiting” version of the psychological doctrine. Here, the presiding view is that from the psychological, biological and physical doctrines, the extension to the biological and physical world merely acts as an extended hyperbole to affirm the

Whether the happening be good or bad, humans tend to rationalize the circumstance and make it an event that served a greater purpose. In Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra describes this behavior, along with many others, as life denying as he was mainly concerned with ethics. The prologue tells the story of how Zarathustra went up a mountain and spent ten years there gaining wisdom; he then descends to share his wisdom but the people laugh at him and he comes to realize that they did not and would not take him seriously because they were too far gone with old beliefs. He also came to the conclusion that he did not want people who conform and do not think for themselves, or followers, but rather people who desire to go in the same direction he is going. Throughout the prologue and part one of the book Nietzsche is trying to teach those who can think for themselves about how to live well and without excuses.

What are morals? Are they a certain thing that have to be done or a thing that is learned? Are they going to be something that we use in good or bad times? According to the dictionary morals is defined as relating to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong. Simply this means that your right of conduct is ethical. It is also stated that morals are founded on the fundamental principles of right conduct rather than legalities or custom. So what is Nietzsche: Genealogy of Morals going to tell us about these morals that will show us that what we do is more about those humanly principles rather than legal principle?

Humans need the appearance of some sort of structure to live. They need rules to live by to tell them whether or not they are living “right”, in a good way or a bad way. We humans have come up with many different ways to tell whether we are living right “right” or not. We have come up with all of the different types of religions and the different sets of morals , all of which change throughout history and time depending on and reflecting it’s episteme. How can any religion or set of morals be considered the “right one” when there has been no consistency with either? Both Feuerbach and Nietzsche have the same belief, that religions and morals are only a crutch that humans grab on to in order to give some meaning to the random assortment of life on earth. Both think that religion was a crutch for humans because of our inability to be perfect. Religions especially Christianity (Jesus) have their own destruction built in to them because of the humanity aspect. Though Feuerbach and Nietzsche agreed upon this they had very different opinions on how it would come about.

I think that the three questions that I will try to find answers are highly interconnected with each other and because of this reason, I will not answer them separately. I will be answering them without order.

Friedrich Nietzsche saw himself surrounded by a world of human constructs. Humanity had become a herd, clinging to these concepts like cattle grazing at a favorite patch of grass. Individual identity struggled to exist. The morality of the mediocre reigned supreme. Nietzsche lived in a dead world.

I remember the first time I heard about Nietzsche was a few years ago, in my chemistry class. I had a friend who spent all his time, in science classes, reading books about philosophy. His nonconformity caught my attention. I started to be interested by the big mustache of the author on the cover page of his book Le Gai Savoir, because I knew, of course, that all authors with big mustache – such as Victor Hugo and Albert Einstein – wrote about great things! So I started to read Nietzsche 's works. Then, one day, my dad caught me reading Le Gai Savoir and he told me that this philosopher, born in a town near Leipzig on 15 October 1844 (Wotling 797), had changed the way he perceived his life. He told me that when he was eighteen in China, he was very poor and due to his stressful condition, he failed the final admission exam for a university. Because of the high amount of population and competition in China, the final exam decides unfortunately the fate of a person. He had developed depression. However, one day, he bought a Nietzsche 's book and started to read it. He told me that Nietzsche 's poetry and positive ideas motivated him to change his life, to be greater, and to "become who [he really is]" (Nietzsche, Le Gai Savoir 251). And this is why he wasn 't afraid of immigrating to Canada with my mother. In this essay, I will introduce this great philosopher and I will show that he agrees with the point of view of Socrates that "an unexamined life is not worth living",