Sangita Bashyal Prof Outline Philosophy 101 3 December 2017 Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche is a German philosopher. He was a nineteen-century’s philosopher and he challenged the Christianity and morality. He was born in the town of Rochen, near Leipzig on October 15, 1844. He was the son and grandson of a minister. When he was four years old his father passed away and after six months later, his younger brother suddenly passed away. After that incident Nietzsche, his sister and mother moved to the place where his two aunts were living. He was an intelligent student and his teachers were inspired by his work at school. In fact, his teacher Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl wrote a letter in his reference the Nietzsche was so promising that “He will simply be able to do anything he wants to do”. (R.Lanier Anderson, Nietzsche’s Life and works). In 1970, he volunteered as a nurse’s assistant (Nietzsche vii). He was a philosopher, poet psychologist. However, “he did not develop a theory of history” (Carl E. Pletsch). Pletsch also said in his article, he was one of the most complex thinkers. He had given his effort in philosophy lecture, in psychology and in his education, such as history. He was one of the most powerful thinkers in the world. He started illness from his early period of time. He was enthusiastic on his health problems since his childhood. He tried to find explanations for those health problems and described them exhaustively. Nietzsche His poor
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.
Fourteen billion years ago there was a big bang and the universe as we know it came into existence. It is fascinating that those particles that existed since that very first explosion are what constitutes the corporal, are what constitutes us, humans. Seven billion people populating this planet, each of us made of the same base ingredients and yet we are so different. Seven billion minds, having infinite thoughts, every single moment, of every day; we may inhabit the same planet, but our worlds are vastly dissimilar, our thoughts unique, our perspectives our own.
Friedrich Nietzsche was part of large family. His father’s name was Carl Ludwig Nietzsche. Carl Nietzsche was a religious man and was the preacher of a Lutheran church. His mother’s name was Franziska Oehler. Friedrich Nietzsche also had a sister and a brother. His sister’s name was Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, and his brother’s name was Ludwig Joseph. At age five, Friedrich Nietzsche’s family life changed. His father passed away due to brain problem. The year after his father’s death, Ludwig Joseph the brother passed away. After the loss of his two family members, Friedrich Nietzsche, his mother, and sister moved in with their grandmother. The loss of his love ones was a very trying time for Friedrich Nietzsche, and their deaths caused Nietzsche to question his beliefs
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 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 Nietzsche unquestionably serves as a model for the single best pundit of religion. At the flip side of this range, Jonathan Edwards develops as his archrival regarding religious talk. Nietzsche contends that Christianity's stance to all that is exotic is that grounded in danger, out to manageable all that rests on nature, or is characteristic, much the same as Nietzsche's position on the planet and his perspectives. Considering this current, Edwards' perspectives on Christianity ought to be seen in setting focused at the individuals who concur with his thought, that G-d is incredible and past the limit of human reason.
In Leipzig, he developed a close friendship with Erwin Rohde (1845–1898), a fellow philology student and future philologist, with whom he would correspond extensively in later years. Momentous for Nietzsche in 1865 was his accidental discovery of Arthur Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation (1818) in a local bookstore. He was then 21. Schopenhauer's atheistic and turbulent vision of the world, in conjunction with his highest praise of music as an art form, captured Nietzsche's imagination, and the extent to which the “cadaverous perfume” of Schopenhauer's world-view continued to permeate Nietzsche's mature thought remains a matter of scholarly debate. After discovering Schopenhauer, Nietzsche read F.A. Lange's newly-published History of Materialism and Critique of its Present Significance (1866) — a work that criticizes materialist theories from the standpoint of Kant's critique of metaphysics, and that attracted Nietzsche's interest in its view that metaphysical speculation is an expression of poetic
Explain Nietzsche’s account of the Origin of the Moral Conscience: Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher famous for his many works on a number of important topics such as nihilism, morality and consciousness. One of Nietzsche’s most notable pieces of work is his Genealogy of Morals. This is a collection of three essays Nietzsche has written that focus on the conscience and the concept of guilt. In this essay, I will be focusing on the second and third essay.
Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, wrote on European history and its undergone of harmful development, conditions had never been worse, in the late nineteenth century. Believed institutions and movements were engaged in reducing human beings to a lower level of existence, more common; and that any individual displaying qualities as srenght, could be vilified and shackled. He blamed this on the mineteenth century not have produced many mighty monuments as they were capable of creating. Nietzsche blamed the Jews for the wrong turn in western civviliation The Geneaology of Morals (1887) is Nietzsche’s elaboration of ideas, pertaining European history, concerning ideals.
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
Friedrich Nietzsche is a very blunt and straightforward philosopher and I was very surprised by his writings, he is very different from philosophers in general as they do are never so blunt and straightforward. Nietzsche, unlike other philosophers comes straight to the point whereas philosophers generally “beat around the bush”. I found Nietzsche’s readings to be very refreshing and interesting, he had something new to say on the topic of God and religion. Nietzsche is not in favor of the idea that God exists, in fact, he believes God to be dead. He seems to be not in favor of religions either, he spoke very ill of them and is very passionately against the whole idea of religions in generally, especially Christianity. Although I did find Nietzsche’s
In Friedrich Nietzsche’s THE ANTICHRIST he writes about a character called “Zarathustra”. Zarathustra is a man who went into the wild at the age of thirty to find freedom through solitude. After ten years in the wild he decides it is time for him to go back into society and share his newfound wisdom of the world. Zarathustra claims that the only bridge between animals and the overman is man itself. He develops three stages to connect man with animal and Zarathustra’s sermons state there is three stages to the whole thing, the stage of the camel, lion and finally the child stage.
Friedrich Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher and held in regard amongst the greatest philosophers of the early part century. He sharpened his philosophical skills through reading the works of the earlier philosophers of the 18th century such as Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, Arthur Schopenhauer and African Spir; however, their works and beliefs were opposite to his own. His primary mentor was Author Schopenhauer, whose belief was that reality was built on the foundation of experience. Such as it is, one of his essays, Schopenhauer als Erzieher, published in 1874, was dedicated to Schopenhauer (Mencken, 2008). In the past two centuries, his work has had authority and influence in both
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
Around 100 million animals are tested yearly around the world . Scientists willing test these animals knowing that they are causing them harm but it is accepted because it is helping society as a whole. What does this say about the people testing the animals; do they have any morality, do they know what they are doing is wrong or do they feel as though they are doing it for the greater good? In beef alone, Americans consume around 24.1 billions pounds. Here, America is again though killing animals for our own use and benefits. Nietzsche believes that there are no morals and that everything we have been taught is anti-natural. Nietzsche implied the morals that people associate with killing, testing, and eating animals are all antinatural. He stated; “as it concerns for its own sake, and and not out of regard for the concerns, considerations, and contrivances of life, is a specific error with which one ought to have no pity.”(Nietzsche 351) This explains how the people performing these acts of testing, abuse, eating, and killing are only listening to their animalistic instincts or they know that what they are doing is for the greater good. Nietzsche continued to explain that people do these things for the benefit of themselves, “Almost every party understands how it is the interest of its own self-preservation,” (Nietzsche 348) Scientists test on animals to help the public, we