Modern Existentialism : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche And National Socialism

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.

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Friedrich, Germany in 1844, later died in 1900. Nietzsche literature and history philosophy was considered to be worst sophist. All moral philosophers have been soporific, misleading. In other words, do not believe in just anything a “God” tell you because there is no God. Nietzsche was a moral theorist as new moral theorist many try to adopt moral theory and add science aspects. But not consider idea of conscience in same way as former moral theorist have in the past. Being a moral theorist in regards to actually raises doubt that there is such thing as morality. There are two known moralities, Master and Slave morality. These moralities came based on what Nietzsche said, “to be a human is to be a beast, and tube a superior beast, a person must be able to attack, control, happiness, exploit the weak. All societies have a class and within the class, known as ruling caste. The ruling caste originated from barbarian caste in state of nature. Where violence and power is wanted greatly. The hire you are in the caste you are considered to have more power, or in Nietzsche case you have more knowledge. Having more knowledge is the only way a person can reach true happiness. Nietzsche created these steps to Astuteness moral castration. The steps consist of making virtue the goal, set up standards for the virtue, opponents are ungodly, suffering

German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, is one of the most read, least understood- yet influential thinker who brought forth new questions for many philosophers to follow. There are many accusations and rumors around Nietzsche. In “What Nietzsche Really Said” these accusations and rumors that surrounded Nietzsche are allayed and supported by his impact and influential views. “What Nietzsche really said depends on what one reads and how one interpret what ones reads” thus, the interpretation of these accusations and rumors are either helpful or harmful about Nietzsche. Three helpful rumors about Nietzsche is that he adored power, he was a (pre) postmodernist and argued fallaciously. Although he was apolitical, people believed that his “will

Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the greatest writers and psychologist amongst all the philosophers – scathing, funny, profound, sad, and yet ultimately beautiful and inspiring. He had a very astute understanding of human nature, and thus realized that most humans lived by myths that they believed to be true (very Socratic). His fame has significantly contributed to the popularity of postmodern

Friedrich Nietzche was born in Rocken. He spent much of his time alone, reading the Bible. Nietzsche’s father died in 1849. The young man withdrew deeper into religion.

In the modern sense of the term, Nietzsche is a nihilist. However, by his own definitions, Nietzsche is not a nihilist. By modern definition, a nihilist is one who lacks belief in anything, and disbelieves in truth and in any meaning to life. According to Nietzsche there are three psychological states of nihilism, which to label briefly are disappointment, monism, and extremism. When one analyses each state, one can see that Nietzsche does not qualify as any of them. It is hard to doubt that Nietzsche may have experienced each psychological state, but he never remained with one. He is a separate category of nihilist.

Most importantly, similar to Spinoza before him, Nietzsche is a naturalist and a determinist. People are not favored over different creatures – rather, similar to them, we are a piece of "a causal web that contains the entire universe." Where different scholars talk about the opportunity of the human will, Nietzsche discloses to us that the will is neither free nor unfree, yet rather solid or frail. For Simon Blackburn he was the primary thinker to attempt to acclimatize Darwinism. Nietzsche's The Genealogy of Morals is an activity in 'creature brain research', considering (in Nietzsche's own particular words) "the physiology and developmental history of living beings and ideas." In various other focal works Nietzsche holds onto science as

Society is flawed. There are critical imbalances in it that cause much of humanity to suffer. In, the most interesting work from this past half-semester, The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx is reacting to this fact by describing his vision of a perfectly balanced society, a communist society. Simply put, a communist society is one where all property is held in common. No one person has more than the other, but rather everyone shares in the fruits of their labors. Marx is writing of this society because, he believes it to be the best form of society possible. He states that communism creates the correct balance between the needs of the individual and the needs of society. And furthermore thinks that sometimes

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

The Nazi ideology did not just come out of nowhere. They give credit to the German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, who was a peaceful nonbeliever in the overall ideology of religion. He thought that religion was not good, such as Christianity and Judaism equally. So why did the Nazi’s credit Nietzsche with the anti-Semitic views that their party valued? This was the common myth that Nietzsche’s philosophy gave the Nazi party their views about the Jews. Evidence shows that Nietzsche was actually not anti-Semitic at all and thought very highly of the Jews. It was people like his sister, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, and his friend, Richard Wagner, who tried to support German Nationalism and agree with their ways. Looking back into Nietzsche’s upbringings and his works before he had a breakdown, you could see that what he believed in was the opposite of what the Nazi’s

Friedrich Nietzsche was a philosopher in the nineteenth century from Germany. Even today is philosophy is questioned and continues to be controversial. His views on morality and religion were the cause for much discussion in his time. Nietzsche “challenged the foundations of Christianity and traditional morality” (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2010). His writings had a provocative style and to this day no agreement has been reached regarding the meaning.

He was very likely to try to fundamentally explode the traditional values based on Christianity of western country in nineteenth centuries. To achieve this goal of his, he used the similar style of writing as the Scriptures in order to show the differences more clearly. It seems that Nietzsche’s famous phrase “God is dead” shows his idea plainly.

Existentialism can be defined as a branch of philosophy that emphasizes individual existence, freedom, and choice. It focuses on the question of human existence and the feeling that there is no purpose or explanation for existence. Although they never used the term existentialism in their works, Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche are considered two of the first and significant philosophers to the existentialist movement. They focused on subjective human experience and were interested in the struggle to escape boredom and find meaning in life. Kierkegaard and Nietzsche also stressed the importance of making free choices and how these choices change the identity of the individual. Both Kierkegaard and Nietzsche felt that life is

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",