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Thousands of people have used this line without having any idea where it comes from. It’s actually a quote from Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols, a book about the importance of independent thought. It’s also an elegantly concise summary of his argument for embracing hardship as a way of affirming the whole of life. “What is good? All ...
Mar 17, 2017 · Friedrich Nietzsche. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher and cultural critic who published intensively in the 1870s and 1880s. He is famous for uncompromising criticisms of traditional European morality and religion, as well as of conventional philosophical ideas and social and political pieties associated with modernity ...
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May 30, 1997 · Friedrich Nietzsche. Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher of the late 19th century who challenged the foundations of Christianity and traditional morality. He believed in life, creativity, health, and the realities of the world we live in, rather than those situated in a world beyond. Central to his philosophy is the idea of “life ...
The Revaluation of All Values. As the title of of his book Beyond Good and Evil suggests, Nietzsche seeks to find a place “beyond good and evil.”. One of Nietzsche’s fundamental achievements is to expose the psychological underpinnings of morality. He shows that our values are not themselves fixed and objective but rather express a ...
Denounced by some for undermining all traditional faith in truth and goodness, he has been praised by others for confronting honestly and truthfully the harmful and deceptive ideals of a self-serving past. Nietzsche's almost irresoluble ambiguity and many-sidedness are partly generated by his style of writing – playful, hyperbolic, cantering ...
Summary. Nietzsche opens the essay entitled “‘Good and Evil,’ ‘Good and Bad’”by expressing dissatisfaction with the English psychologists who have tried to explain the origin of morality. They claim to be historians of morality, but they completely lack a historical spirit.
Nietzsche's polemic challenges the assumptions of standard genealogies. One of the most important events in Western history occurs when the slaves revolt against the masters' form of valuation. Western morality has historically been a struggle between elements that derive from a basic form of valuation derived from 'masters' and one derived ...
