Nietzsche Essays

Friedrich Nietzsche puts forth the image of the priestly figure in what seems to be a positive and negative manner. Priests are “the greatest haters in the world” but they are also “the most intelligent” (p.17). Nietzsche’s position, according to me, seems ambivalent due to the context in which he refers to them is altering. There is no clear light in which the priestly figure is shown to be inherently positive or negative. In this paper, I will bring in his claims, explicate Nietzsche’s standpoint

“Nietzsche’s Attempt on Restoring the Innocence of Becoming” Nietzsche makes an attempt on “Restoring the innocence of becoming” by getting rid of “Punishment” and “Guilt”. He makes this claim in his “Error of Free Will”, by saying that, “Nowadays, since we are engaged in a movement in the opposite direction, since we immoralists especially are seeking with all our strength to eliminate the concept of guilt and punishment again and to cleanse psychology, history, nature, social institutions and

Nietzsche was the re-evaluator of human values and what it meant to be human—a critique of the theme, human values, that we’ve been following scantily through this paper. Nietzsche also drives home what’s at stake in believing one thing from another, most often turning his ire towards Christianity. What Nietzsche discovered, however, was that our beliefs weren’t truly our own. Instead, he found that we were adopting discourses and meaning from places other than ourselves—contradicting the belief

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher who believed that master morality was the superior morality as opposed to slave morality. He starts in the selection of “In Beyond Good and Evil” by saying “To refrain mutually from injury, from violence, from exploitation and put one’s will on par with that of others: this may result in a certain rough sense in good conduct among individuals when the necessary conditions are given…” Nietzsche explains here that if everyone could just treat each other

Friederich Nietzsche and His Philosophies Friederich Nietzsche was born in 1844 in the Prussian province of Saxony. He was the offspring of a long line of clergymen including his father, who was the pastor of a Lutheran congregation. His childhood was consumed with the haunting death of his father and, soon after, brother. After enrolling in school, he suffered from intense, painful headaches and myopia which caused burning sensations and blurred vision. This may have been syphilis and it

believes that we should completely get rid of religion so that we are truly free and utilizing our social and political powers for social relations. To Marx, to be truly free, we must have the freedom to control our social relations. Like Marx, Nietzsche is a theorist of alienation, but he believes that man is alienated through morality and our progression

Nietzsche ́s pragmatic conception of History: correlation and dichotomy of historical consciousness and happiness Using Nietzsche's great essay on the “Uses and disadvantages of history for life” as the starting point I have examined the utility of the study of history for judgment and practicality. This term paper argues, following Nietzsche; that the wrong kind of historical study can be very bad for "life " causing misery and depression, while the right kind-the kind employed by a pragmatic

origin of human morals. Nietzsche presents numerous strong arguments in this book against society 's moral implications, however, it is his concepts of slave and master morality which are seen repeatedly. These two concepts of master and slave morality are particularly evident in the movie Fight Club. Although Fight Club is a modern-day movie, its storyline and subject matter reveals that it was heavily influence by Nietzsche’s concept of slave and master morality. Nietzsche first introduces the concept

College May 6, 2016   Abstract: Friedrich Nietzsche devoted his life to the study of philosophy and ethics. In particular to topics regarding Christianity and Atheism. A majority of his writings are against Christianity and The Antichrist is no different. The following paper will look into what Nietzsche wrote in The Antichrist and explore the ethical principles that he proposes and dismisses in this writing.   The Antichrist is a collection of Friedrich Nietzsche writings that were put together by his

Are Nietzsche and Arendt critics of human nature? The modern philosophy is pessimistic opposed to the optimistic sciences. Friedrich Nietzsche as one of the most influential and dominant philosopher of the XIX. century famous statement such as “God is dead” are still in the centre of attention and debates between philosophers.To have such a statement in his time is quite remarkable, and it is often misunderstood. Does Nietzsche represent his era’s feelings and saying that the christianity is