Nietzsche, Reinforced, And Challenged By Nietzsche

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.

A passionate, anti-democratic philosopher who was born in 1844, Friedrich Nietzsche was a very influential being who was excellent at expressing his unique beliefs and theories (Kalish). He was given the title: “the honorable philosopher of the Third Reich” (Golumb and Wistrich). Nietzsche has many well-developed and rigorous books that provide much influence and still have relevance in today's world. Nietzsche was the most important influence on Nazi philosophy. His influence on Nazi philosophy is clearly seen through the effects his book, The Will to Power, left on the Nazi people. Another aspect of his influence arouses from his ambiguous and vague style of writing. Finally, Nietzsche’s influence on the Nazis is noticeable through

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’s own skepticism symbolized the secular changes in contemporary Western civilization, in which he details mankind’s break away from faith into a new rule of chaos. In Book 5 of The Gay Science, Nietzsche establishes that “God is dead”, meaning that modern Europe has abandoned religion in favor of rationality and science (Nietzsche 279). From this death, the birth of a ‘new’ infinite blossoms in which the world is open to an unlimited amount of interpretations that do not rely on the solid foundations of faith in religion or science. However, in contrast to the other philosophers of his age such as Immanuel Kant and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Nietzsche deviates from the omniscient determinism of history towards a

Within this article, Lee analyzes the state of mind of Billy in the terms of his execution due to Billy’s calmness as well as the way that his death relates to a Nietzschean understanding. The arguments made are relatively sound though nothing is perfect. Lee, in the second paragraph, makes the assertion that “All these critics”(61) have concluded to one situation and he is the only one to see the higher way. By saying “all”, Lee has weakened his argument due to the illogical factor of Lee being able to account for every individual. He then proceeds to base his argument on this one way of thinking, that no one else has ever thought of before. On top of this, Lee has included the use of personal pronouns such as “I” and “my” in order to conclude

Friedrich Nietzsche’s On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense represents a deconstruction of the modern epistemological project. Instead of seeking for truth, he suggests that the ultimate truth is that we have to live without such truth, and without a sense of longing for that truth. This revolutionary work of his is divided into two main sections. The first part deals with the question on what is truth? Here he discusses the implication of language to our acquisition of knowledge. The second part deals with the dual nature of man, i.e. the rational and the intuitive. He establishes that neither rational nor intuitive man is ever successful in their pursuit of knowledge due

Progress is complacency. Mankind lazes around in the incandescent knowledge of ostensible progress, illiterate in the true nature of man. Progress is movement towards a destination, not a destination in and of itself. Presently, our world has progressed only marginally since the 19th century, when the world of enlightened thinkers shifted away from Nihilism towards Modernism. Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the seminal thinkers of the era, rejected nihilism and the 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 an equal share of influence” (Backman, 861) Nietzsche would argue that Western society has eschewed

Nietzsche starts this second essay by looking at and reviewing the importance of our ability to make and keep promises. To hold yourself and others to a promise means having the need of both a good memory, the ability to remember making said promise and a strong feeling of confidence what will happen next and a long term ability to know you will be able to fulfil said promise. In order for us to make the commitment and have the confidence to do so means that on some level, we must give a feeling and make ourselves into the ideal of becoming in a way predictable, to be able to achieve this we as humans need a set of guideline to follow, certain rules that make this predictability a possibility, the certainty that a set of actions will lead to a set of reactions both internally and externally.

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.

Nietzsche regards free will not only to be a philosophical error but also to be a falsification in society (651). Nietzsche suggests that any particular “will” is going to be strong or weak to some actual degree and points out that with “will” there are thoughts and our thoughts can flow and change just as things in the universe flow and change (651). According to Nietzsche, the underlying force driving all change is will and it boils down to a drive for freedom and domination over other things (651). Nietzsche states that we use “the four great errors” constantly to misinterpret reality and thus create many illusions that are used to show the world in a more convenient light for us (651). Nietzsche states that the first error is the most dangerous one, which is mistaking the cause and effect and regards it as an error that is the most recent and yet has been a habit for centuries (651).

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

Nietzsche would look at the suffering between the two cultures, and discuss that from this they will grow stronger as a culture. The Jews, after being faced with Germany and World War II, faced much discrimination. But as a culture to be able to survive past such a traumatic experience and grow as a society much stronger. Much like Nietzsche may argue as the Muslims will. If we were to look at the United States and the modern world as the “master class”, because they are considered to be the more powerful countries, and the Middle East as the Slaves, as they are not as. As Nietzsche says, “noble morality grows out of a triumphant saying ‘yes’ to itself, salve morality says ‘no’ on principle to everything that is ‘outside’” ([1887] 2007). The

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 am writing this journal with the goal of recounting my travels to different philosophical societies.

3). In his most basic claims, Nietzsche implicitly negates the possibility of a “disinterested” or “objective” truth. He would not urge so definitively for an affirmation of reality, if he held out for the possibility of fantasy or god. The ‘innocence of becoming’ is a clear example of how Nietzsche, for all intents and purposes, “debunk[‘s]” the relevance of claims made by traditional authorities. In essence, Nietzsche basically nullifies the relevance of societal hierarchy. Not only this, but the further claims made by such a society regarding morality and philosophical thinking, are seen to be – at best – gullible and naïve. The ‘innocence of becoming’ refers to even the lowest classes of society finding power in their status. In lieu of accepting that we are completely alone in the world, Nietzsche asserts that we have a constant need to blame others for our state. It is simply much easier to do than to accept that everything we do has no genuine or reaching consequences. While the ‘innocence of becoming’ is not necessarily an innocent process as those we choose to blame are usually blameless, it is fair to say that we are innocent of it; much like the ‘will to power’ it also works through self-deception. Evidently we are able to commit to life affirmation by essentially taking no responsibility for our weakness. Christianity itself is closely connected with the ‘becoming’ process as in its