Nietzsche's Philosophy: Course Analysis

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

After connecting the passage to Nietzsche’s opinion of a fulfilled lifestyle, I believe that he would disagree with Smith’s way of living. The two have contrasting ideas, in which Nietzsche’s seems to be a more ethical one in the fullest sense.

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.”

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

Philosophy, according to Oxford Dictionary, is the study of the general and fundamental nature of reality and language. Therefore, philosophy is an understanding of ourselves and the world around us, it is the knowledge one is willing to attain simply for the sake of knowing and being aware.

|It has been argued that the “different voice” Gilligan, Held and Tronto posit in response to ethics may not be as authentic or empowering as it would seem (Paley, 2002; Pukka, 1990). These critiques draw consensus by utilising Friedrich Nietzsche’s thoughts in Towards a Genealogy of Morals (1887) to suggest how, in periods of oppression, the underrepresented and disempowered have a tendency to promote morals systems that advocate inferior attributes as exhibiting increased moral capital. In this respect the negative externalities associated with their work can be revalued as a positive, empowering, authentic voice of the oppressed. Following from this idea, the case has been made that care ethics fits the criteria of a salve morality, albeit one that specifically emerged from the consequence of labor divisions enforced by patriarchy (Sander-Staudt, 2001). It is the view of this paper that this claim is erroneous― based on an inaccurate impetus, the proposal of care ethics exhibiting slave morality represents a fundamental

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

As mentioned earlier, Nietzsche doesn’t recognize a high power, which is odd because he grew up among Lutheran pastors. Philosophy of the future influenced Nietzsche’s philosophy. He believed in the after of certain periods. For example, he was post moral, post religious, post metaphysical etc. He also was the type of existentialism philosopher that was about reevaluating values, basically giving a new sense of good and bad and to be multi-perspectival. However, in Nietzsche’s eyes decision making wouldn’t be a burden like it would be seen in Kierkegaard’s eyes. Nietzsche would see as a great process for people to have control over their own lives. Because he believed in that you should enhance the quality of life and become a work of art would support that having that free will, will let humanity become, enhance, and create the life they want for themselves. Nietzsche’s outlook about shows that the central idea to his philosophy is the idea of “life-affirmation,” which involves an honest questioning of all doctrines that drain life’s expansive energies, however socially prevalent those views might be. (Wicks 1). With Nietzsche’s outlook, would intrigue modern people today, to proclaim their own lives and make their own decisions. Also, being constructive, being creative, and reinterpreting everything was a part of the Nietzsche’s philosophy and those three

He felt the idea of the superman as well as other Nietzsche writings gave him and the Nazis the right and the reason to take over what they wished and impose the beliefs they wished. In fact, Hitler believed himself to be a superman. This belief is evident by the way Hitler acted during his reign as the leader of the Nazi party. The attempted destruction of the Jewish people as a race was actually based on writings by Nietzsche. In Hitler’s mind the Jews were inferior and therefore no compassion should be given to them. Hitler, of course, took this once step further and actually killed many of the ‘weak.’ During World War II Hitler even issued every German soldier a copy of one of Nietzsche’s writings, Thus Spake Zarathustra.      National Socialism and Fascism also spawned from Nietzsche and his thoughts on society. Nietzsche himself was very much socialist in his beliefs which is evident in much of what he wrote. Though socialism may seem far from Nietzsche’s idea of the superman, it is actually very close because the ruler is looked at as a superman who makes all decisions and knows what is best at all times. This can be seen in many societies such as Italy and Germany in World War II, and to some extent The Soviet Union. In each of these cases the ruling party or man used Nietzsche’s beliefs to rationalize their rampant wars, hatred, and genocide.

Nietzsche was a very interesting philosopher, his philosophy and thought process are remarkably different from other big name figures such as Kant, Hobbes, or Mills. In fact, he outright criticized them for rigid forms and ideals of moral values and how a proper member of society shall act. Along with religion and these philosophical theories, Nietzsche believed that people who identified as such, were part of the herd. These individuals to Nietzsche are not individuals at all, they are one of the many because morality overcomes their own personal wants and needs, it’s almost as if the members of the herd suffer from tunnel vision, they only see what is best for the community even if that means severe costs to the follower. Those within the herd never question what their leader’s commands of them, they blindly follow in complete admiration to Nietzsche. Nietzsche and herd instinct are important to discuss about because we can apply his theory to current day events, it forces us to be aware of our surroundings and the current dealings with the new presidential candidates, the terrorist group known as the Daesh, and others factions which wish to gain control over others.

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

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.

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 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