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Friedrich Nietzsche (NEE-chuh, not NEE-chee) was a German philosopher of the 19 th century who today is one of the Western tradition’s most controversial figures. He launched blistering attacks on Christian morality and the stultifying way of life that he saw as its logical consequence.
For example, he argues that Christian morality is fundamentally resentful and life denying, devaluing natural human instincts and promoting weakness and the idea of an afterlife, the importance of which supercedes that of our present life.
Mar 17, 2017 · From a dialectical point of view, Reginster’s reading substantially clarifies the target and the philosophical point of Nietzsche’s views about power: they are aimed against Schopenhauer’s ideas about the will to life and his use of those ideas to motivate pessimism.
Sep 7, 2011 · Nietzsche defends an ideal of freedom as the achievement of a “higher human being”, whose value judgments are a product of a rigorous scrutiny of inherited values and an expression of how the answers to ultimate questions of value are “settled in him”.
- Donald Rutherford
- 2011
Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophical ideas sparked both ardent admiration and fervent opposition, leading to a reception as complex and multifaceted as the man himself. His philosophy found resonance among intellectuals who appreciated the fearless exploration of existential themes and the rejection of conventional morality.
Jul 20, 2015 · Apollo was the sun god who brought light and rational clarity to the world. For Nietzsche, those who view things through an Apollonian lens see the world as orderly, rational, and bounded by definite borders. The Apollonian views humanity not as an amorphous whole, but as discrete and separate individuals.
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And Nietzsche's political views and the posthumous appropriation — many would argue misappropriation — of some of his ideas by thinkers associated with fascism and National Socialism (Nazism) led initially to a hostile response to his works among many British and French readers.
