Nietzsche's Philosophy: Course Analysis

Nietzsche fight to the idols is based on his age and according to him, they need to be fought and to be approached with violence because they are very strong and they rule with the power of obviousness. Therefore, Nietzsche has a belief in mind that those who begin to read his polemical philosophy will engage in a fight implying that the readers of his work will be the subject of his violent attacks. His claims are a preeminent way to be the type philosopher he gives in his description in beyond “Good and Evil” “a man tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, who has always found himself, and had to find himself, in a contradiction to his today: whose enemy was ever the ideal of today”. According to Nietzsche, the great wisdom of all spirits who have become too inward is war (Hollingdale,

Nietzsche declaims, “they pose as having discovered and attained their real opinions through the self-evolution of a cold, pure, divinely unperturbed dialectic: while what happens at bottom is that a prejudice, a notion, an ‘inspiration,’ generally a desire of the heart sifted and made abstract, is defended by them with reasons sought after the event” (Beyond Good and Evil, which will be referred to as BGE, I.5). Thus, philosophical insights are not the universal claims to truth that philosophers have presented them as and wished them to be. The philosophy of an individual is precisely that, not a product “of a cold, pure, divinely unperturbed dialectic.”

Therefore, an individual must accept absolute nihilism where there is no pre-determined higher meaning to life, no goals an individual is destined to achieve and no social constructs to follow. Building upon this argument, Nietzsche elaborates in Will to Power that "Nihilism is . . . not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one's shoulder to the plough; one destroys”.

Schopenhauer was a philosopher in the 19th century who made the striking case for view of nihilism and he argued that for a life to be worth living, it must include a preponderance of happiness over suffering. However, he argued that there is no life include preponderance happiness over suffering. Therefore, he concluded that there is no life worth life and that leads to nihilism. Yet, that is a relatively implausible argument, because the life to be called a meaningful life do need the preponderance happiness over suffering. In that way, a life is worth living and an outstanding good life. Furthermore, Nietzsche was also a philosopher in late modern western philosophy. His naturalistic perspective on the meaning of life states that the meaning of life is to be an overhuman which consist of strongly exercising the will of power. In his argument, the will of power refers to the concept of striving to overcome one’s limitation in life. To be more specific, one people will have the will of power to endeavor their problems and despite of the hardness, people still fight for the difficulties and overcome their limitations in their experiences. There is another term – overhuman, which represent someone who constantly strive to overcome her limitation in life. To explain that term, people having the will to strive for their limitations and pay effort in it is so called the overhuman. Besides, it is easier for people to accept naturalism instead of nihilism and supernaturalism for

Nietzsche establishes a "long line of degrees" of the expression of the will to power. (Dawn 113) The overman is one who has attained the highest degrees expression in his will to power. Philosophy is one of these highest degrees. (Beyond Good and Evil 9) For Nietzsche, the more common expressions of the will to power (the sexual drive, for instance) are the lower ones, and must be sublimated, or redirected, so that the will to power expresses itself in higher, more creative ways. (Kaufmann 220) Art, for instance, is one of these ways, an idea which

"Will to power" in Nietzsche can be seen as a natural disposition. But now the critical point comes, because the human beings misinterpreted the "Will to power", it became a part the bad conscience.

Philosophy is the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline(Webster.) The value theory or value system is the system that is used in order to determine how one determines the importance of things, ideas and people. Philosophy can be a hard term or subject to fully grasp, while in actuality the word directly translated from Greek is love for wisdom. If it can be understood that philosophy is simply the love for knowledge and understanding, one could see that philosophy is essentially the study of learning how to learn, or best understand any given thing. The term philosophy

“All things in life are philosophical.” This is a well-known quote by the renowned Greek scientist/philosopher Aristotle. When one is to imagine life without thought, free will or knowledge, they are left to only imagine the oblivion they would be left to reside in. To me, philosophy is more than ethics, esthetics, and epistemology... it is the ability to stand ones ground with certain viewpoints, attitudes and beliefs.

Philosophy is a general overview of how our society functions, by how we think and the many ways in which we act. It can also be described as the love of wisdom. As individuals we are introduced to ideas that test our knowledge of the different concepts of life, with questions such as who are we and why were we brought here? Philosophical questions have made an impact on us with thoughts that don't usually have an answer to the question which was brought forward, and to which neither side knows the answer to. For thousands of years mankind has questioned the origins of human life and the nature of the cosmos. Over the years, great philosophers such

The understanding of Friedrich Nietzsche’s argument suggests that we can overcome nihilism. Nihilism suggests that all values are untrue and nothing is justifiable, and Nietzsche believes one can overcome it by “revaluating our values” (Nietzsche et al. 1887). From the following quote, I understand that Nietzsche has two main arguments, one of which is a cultural debunking argument which refers to a social selection and the other is a consequence-based argument which is the bad consequences of us subscribing to the slave morality. Considering these two arguments, Nietzsche notions that by devaluating our values, one could start seeking power and answers. One final argument Nietzsche mentions is that we are all incomplete nihilists and we need to become complete nihilists by creating our own values. All in all, Nietzsche claims that cultural debunking arguments, consequence-based arguments and devaluating our values will help one overcome nihilism.

The philosopher Nietzsche has constantly argued about man’s will to power. His argument was reflected in several works and influenced many other writers and philosophers over centuries. “Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power...” Nietzsche states in his book “Will to Power”. As a result, living beings, including us humans, want to be part of this universe and be essential to it. The will to power describes mainly the need to live and exist, but not only that, it also encompasses the

　　Philosophy is defined as the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. How I see it, philosophy is a set of ideas about how we live our lives or how we do what we do. I always ask myself this question, “What do I get up each and every morning wanting to do?”.

Philosophy is the most beliefs about what is true or real according to individual values (Gutek, 2009). Philosophy is our beliefs that will determine what we do professionally and personally. Not having a philosophy set in place, it will be difficult to make decisions within the classroom, creating curriculums and evaluate progress. Although a person can set goals without having a philosophy implemented, not having the foundation of a set philosophy (core set of beliefs) achieving the goals can be a very difficult challenge.

     To me philosophy is a way of thinking, believing, and understanding. It could begin with learning how to interpret things and explore their meanings so that they make sense. I feel that a persons

Philosophy & Ethics; “allows us to breakout of prejudices and harmful habits that we held since we were too young or too naïve to know better”. Also allows us to see and appreciate other views of the world and study it to see “the consequences of our views”, because what we think & know might not be right “inconsistent”.