Spoke Zarathustra By Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical work that Nietzsche wrote in an innovative way by presenting philosophy as fiction by telling a story instead of presenting it like other philosophers in a factual and informative way. Nietzsche named his character Zarathustra after the founder of the ancient Persian religion, Zoroastrianism and not founders of Western civilization religions because he wanted to show that Judeo-Christianity was flawed in their teachings and practices. The first theme that

Nietzsche and the Prophet According to Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the meaning of human existence is to make room for the “Superman”: a superhuman who perseveres in its capacity for unlimited self-creation. (Pg. 49)[1] In order for humankind to embrace its self-creative nature and allow for the transcendence into this superhuman condition, however, we must first learn to destroy our present tables of values; it is our desperate adherence to traditional (religious) values

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, by Friedrich Nietzsche (2016, pp. 12-16), is written in a symbolic and poetic style. The simple words and the abstract story reminds me of the Scriptures like Old and New Testaments or Quran and the myths like Greek or North mythologies. In addition to that, Nietzsche named the protagonist “Zarathustra”, which is the German name of the founder of Zoroastrianism. This let me feel the religious atmosphere more. Why Nietzsche used this style of writing

who is responsible for murdering an Arab man in cold blood. Meursault does not believe in God and seems to have no moral compass. This lack of morality allows Meursault to make questionable decisions, which ends up costing him his life. Friedrich Nietzsche also addresses the

Dostoevsky and Nietzsche's Overman       The definition of übermensch, or overman, in Barron's Concise Student's Encyclopedia makes anyone who has read Nietzsche's Zarathustra - even aphoristically, as I tried to do at first - cringe. Barron's Encyclopedia defines an overman as someone who "has his act together and gets things done." Of course, considering that this is a summary of one part of Nietzsche's ideas, and that the encyclopedia reduces his entire philosophy to one short paragraph

In this prologue by Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra begins with the line: "When Zarathustra was thirty years old he left his home and the lake of his home and went into the mountains." He leaves the world to live as a loner in the mountains, yet one day his heart is, changes or as what I would say, his heart "transformed" and realized that he wanted to return back into the world of humankind. But first, he has a discussion with the sun and tells the sun that he was tired of

life. First, “they identify as wrong or sinful” certain aspects of human life that Nietzsche thinks are vital (34). For example, this vaue system discourages willing and value-creation by claiming all authority in those areas. As a result, these instincts are repressed in humans, who “would rather will nothingness than not will,” finally resulting in a denial of life, which is seen as unhealthy by Nietzsche (Nietzsche, On the Geneaology of Morals 163). Second, they “favor … the universal rule of one

some of Nietzsche’s and Marx’s ideas. Demian is an important character that displays Nietzschean qualities of the ‘’overman’’ (Nietzsche 125). With his meeting with Sinclair, Demian put the seeds of doubt in Sinclair’s mind about conception of truth and the will of power that are both concepts found in Nietzsche’s work. Demian also resembles Nietzsche’s character of Zarathustra and how he believes the importance of creating new set of values. The resemblance with Marx is Demian’s and Sinclair’s belief

The prophet Zarathustra descended from the mountains after ten years of isolation. He has descended to teach the masses about the overman, and the belief system that accompanies him. Nietzsche, through Zarathustra, is offering a new value system to replace Christianity. This value system can be referred to as ‘Zarathustraism’. A vital part to embracing this value system is the deconstruction of Christianity. Man has redefined Christianity to better suit personal desire, and it has begun to fail

In my essay I will be discussing three topics from the Nietzschean texts The Gay Science and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The three main topics concerning these texts that I will talk about are "the overman", "the death of God" and "the new and old sets of values". Briefly, how these three topics relate is that once God is dead, (meaning that we do not believe in him anymore), humanity will have to create new sets of values. These new sets of values will need to have our own meaning instead of looking