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The Nihilism of Contemporary Europe. While most of his contemporaries looked on the late 19th century with unbridled optimism, confident in the progress of science and the rise of the German state, Nietzsche saw his age facing a fundamental crisis in values. With the rise of science, the Christian worldview no longer held a prominent ...
This crisis of Nihilism is the central problem of Nietzsche’s later philosophy. This crisis is the consummation of millennia. It is not a chance occurrence but the final fruit of what he calls the “Ascetic Ideal” — and more specifically of its most dominant Western form: Christianity. This crisis is first given voice in 1882’s The Gay ...
May 21, 2018 · NIETZSCHE, FRIEDRICH (1844–1900), German philosopher. With his declaration that "God is dead" and his ideal of the superman, which in the 1930s dominated Nazi thought in Germany but also flew into the United States as the comic-strip figure "Man of Steel," Friedrich Nietzsche is probably the most recognizable modern philosopher.
Jul 17, 2006 · Nietzsche regarded 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' as his most important work, and his story of the wandering Zarathustra has had enormous influence on subsequent culture. Nietzsche uses a mixture of homilies, parables, epigrams and dreams to introduce some of his most striking doctrines, including the Overman, nihilism, and the eternal return of the ...
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche, who was born in 1844, fell silent in 1889, and died eleven years later, was the first great philosopher of the twentieth century. What made, and makes, him so important, is that he recognized with great clarity and impressive foresight the most troubling and persistent problem of modernity, the problem of values.
Transvaluation. . . Slave Morality. Born the son of a Lutheran pastor in Röcken, Saxony, Friedrich Nietzsche was raised by female relatives after his father's death in 1849. He quickly abandoned his initial pursuit of theology in order to specialize in philology at Bonn and Leipzig, where he studied with Friedrich Ritschl.
Nietzsche’s influence has been deep and abiding: one need consider only the ubiquity of terms he made current: “creativity,” “values,” “power,” “self-expression,” “historicism,” and “genealogy.” [Read More] A study guide to Nietzsche's political philosophy, including primary and secondary sources, multimedia, and an ...
