The Brave and the Bold
Nietzsche was a philosopher that liked to question all that people held onto. He rebelled against Christianity, the Germans, the Jewish; he just did not really like anyone. This type of philosopher is one that really wants us to question the things that we believe. This point is proven in his “Even the bravest” argument. His idea is that, “Even the bravest of us only have the bravery for what we actually know”. This is just basic Nietzsche, questioning and doubting something as simple as us finding someone brave. The thesis of my paper is going to be about how I actually see his point of view and agree with this statement.
He says that someone is only as brave for the things that we actually know, what does that mean? …show more content…
If you think logically, yes bravery is a concept but could not be anything more than a personal concept because we each internally create it to justify our lack of knowledge for the unknown and boost our confidence for the known. Things that we do not understand scare us, and that is just our nature. So I believe that Nietzsche would agree with me that since this concept of bravery is something the we create to give ourselves confidence with things that we know and that is dissipates with things we do not, it can not be something as black and white as, this person is the bravest because blank or that person is bravest for some other reason, therefore saying that the only thing that constitutes bravery is our own personal extent of known things. A great example would be public speaking. While public speaking may not seem like the bravest thing in the world, for the people speaking this argument personally comes to fruition, for some people public speaking is the scariest thing in the world especially when it come to a topic that you are not familiar with and that lack of knowledge prevents someone from being brave. But on the other hand if you have studied the topic and have extensive knowledge on it. The idea of public speaking is usually not a problem, you
Nietzsche was a philosopher that liked to question all that people held onto. He rebelled against Christianity, the Germans, the Jewish; he just did not really like anyone. This type of philosopher is one that really wants us to question the things that we believe. This point is proven in his “Even the bravest” argument. His idea is that, “Even the bravest of us only have the bravery for what we actually know”. This is just basic Nietzsche, questioning and doubting something as simple as us finding someone brave. The thesis of my paper is going to be about how I actually see his point of view and agree with this statement.
He says that someone is only as brave for the things that we actually know, what does that mean? …show more content…
If you think logically, yes bravery is a concept but could not be anything more than a personal concept because we each internally create it to justify our lack of knowledge for the unknown and boost our confidence for the known. Things that we do not understand scare us, and that is just our nature. So I believe that Nietzsche would agree with me that since this concept of bravery is something the we create to give ourselves confidence with things that we know and that is dissipates with things we do not, it can not be something as black and white as, this person is the bravest because blank or that person is bravest for some other reason, therefore saying that the only thing that constitutes bravery is our own personal extent of known things. A great example would be public speaking. While public speaking may not seem like the bravest thing in the world, for the people speaking this argument personally comes to fruition, for some people public speaking is the scariest thing in the world especially when it come to a topic that you are not familiar with and that lack of knowledge prevents someone from being brave. But on the other hand if you have studied the topic and have extensive knowledge on it. The idea of public speaking is usually not a problem, you