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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.
Mar 17, 2017 · Nietzsche’s idea is that truthfulness itself, rigorously pursued through the discipline of science, has forced us to the conclusion that our cognitive powers lead us into “delusion and error”, so that those very demands of truthfulness cannot be satisfied.
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Feb 12, 2014 · Yet as central as historical investigation is for Nietzsche, relatively little sustained work has been done on Nietzsche's philosophy of history -- that is, his views on what historians are up to and what standards of success there are for a given historical account.
Basic Definitions of Nietzsche’s Main Concepts. God is dead: Death of the Western god, its meanings and values. By announcing the death of god, Nietzsche allows us to open our thinking to a diversity of new ideas, new ways of relating to each other, to the earth, and to People of Color, Non-Western people colonized by Western armies and ...
Beginning her account with Ralph Waldo Emerson, whom the seventeen-year-old Nietzsche read fervently, she shows how Nietzsche’s ideas first burst on American shores at the turn of the twentieth century, and how they continued alternately to invigorate and to shock Americans for the century to come.
This chapter discusses the history of the complete and reliable German texts, their origin and the way they were handed down to us, as well as the way the present selection has been made. It indicates some of the basic lines of argumentation and some of the philosophical import of these texts.
First, because he was part of an intellectual movement towards modernism in the late 1800s. Second, because his ideas were used by the Nazis (even though he would not have approved) as support...
