Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche, a late 19th century philosopher and scholar, wrote about the denunciation of God and Christianity and ideas of individual morality. Similar to other early political theorists, he examines society, politics, ethics, and the rights of individuals. Throughout his numerous works, Nietzsche critiques “good and bad” along with morals and society as a collective. He considered himself immoral and a nihilist who condemns Christianity, in addition to believing that existence has no…

Nietzsche is the most important thinker and representative of nihilism after the first-century philosopher Gorgias. Friedrich Nietzsche rejects existing values and order, and also does not accept the value of any entity. Nietzsche says that the traditional foundations who have been adopted by modern people, has collapsed. Therefore, old values should be left and they should be reconstructed. This change takes place only by the will to power and the superior man. According to him, people can…

Given the spiritual dilemma first highlighted in Europe as thinkers gradually discovered that their newfound embrace of faith in reason could not be easily reconciled with faith in organized religion, Friedrich Nietzsche’s post-Enlightenment philosophy should not have come as much of a surprise to any of his contemporaries. In his Parable of the Madman, he frankly portends the immutable result of a communal belief in a Christian God that has been permeated by rationalism and science: “God is…

Jail This paper will attempt to analyse and compare "Beyond Good and Evil" by Friedrich Nietzsche with Martin Luther King, Jr's "Letter from Birmingham Jail". Nietzsche and King are from two entirely different worlds and yet share interest in the very same cause--the betterment of mankind via the ultimate truth for us all. They come from different ends of the spectrum, with Nietzsche being white, King black, and Nietzsche considering himself among those to whom privilege is justified, while…

support and appreciate this right of free will, however, there are also many that are against this notion. German Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche are one of the many people who finds displeasure in free will. As Nietzsche expresses his thoughts and feeling about…

According to section 15 of the first essay On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche, he starts out by saying, “If faith in what? In love of what? In hope of what?---The weak people---some day or other they too intend to be strong there is no doubt of that, some day their kingdom” too shall come---they term it “the kingdom of God,” of course, as aforesaid: for one is so very humble in all things” (Nietzsche, 1989, p. 48). I think he ask these questions to get his audience to truly…

Throughout William Goldings’ novel, Lord of the Flies, the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche are subtly presented within each character’s distinct qualities. Although Golding had never read Nietzsche’s ideas before, Lord of the Flies exhibited the same concepts as Nietzsche’s work. Even though they came from completely different worlds, Golding and Nietzsche had similar ideas on controversial ideas. While both Golding and Nietzsche had opinions on the same subject, they did not always have the same…

abortion. The three philosophers that are going to be addressed are Friedrich Nietzsche, Aristotle, and last but not least John Stuart Mill. It is important to note that these three philosophers are not living today. Therefore, their views are conducted based off what they…

In his essay Genealogy of Morality, Nietzsche suggests that there are two types of morality: master morality and slave morality. Slave morality values virtues like humility, sympathy and kindness. Slave morality sees opposite with noble man, who conceives ‘good’ in advance and spontaneity: the ‘bad’ and ‘evil’ originates from noble man arising out of insatiable hatred. This is the essential act of conception of slave morality (Friedrich Nietzsche sec. 11). Slave revolt in morality begins with…

Going from a Deleuzian perspective, Friedrich Nietzsche’s understanding of Christian love could be compared as something too complex to be just labeled as sadism or masochism. In Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Anti-Christ, he begs to differ but also takes the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s concepts of sadism and masochism from Deleuze’s Coldness and Cruelty under consideration. Analyzing Christian love through the filter of sexual perversion isn’t as unbelievable as one would think. Aspects of…