Dylan Bartikofsky
General Purpose: To inform
Specific Purpose Statement: I want my audience to understand Nietzsche's ideas
Thesis Statement: He as many great ideas about the metaphysical world
Type of Informative Speech: Explanation
Pattern of Organization: Intro, General Life, Will to Power, Ubermensch, Eternal Recurrence Friedrich Nietzsche’s Philosophy
Introduction
How many of you have seen the movies Groundhogs Day, Devil’s Advocate or Fight club? These great films all have occurrences of Nietzsche’s philosophies in them that I am going to discuss today. Growing up I always loved philosophy, the idea of deep thinking, asking questions, just plain wondering about the world around me. I had a burning desire to learn as much as …show more content…
He had one sister and one brother. His sister Elisabeth played a major role in Nietzsche’s philosophy after his death. But Nietzsche never knew his brother for too long as Josef his brother died at an early age of 2 years old. At the same time of his brother’s death his father too passed away. Leaving Friedrich living in a household solely of females, his sister, mother, aunts, and grandmother. Friedrich growing up was tremendously smart, in 1858 he received a scholarship to Schulpforta, Germany’s leading protestant boarding school. After boarding school he went on to attend at the University of Leipzig where he was first introduced to the works of Arthur Schopenhauer, and philosopher Friedrich A. Langes. These men had a huge influence on Nietzsche’s thinking. In the middle of University he was called to serve a mandatory year of military service. While he was in the military he got seriously injured which led him out of the military and back to his studies in Leipzig. After that at the young age of 25 Nietzsche is offered a professorship at the University of Basel in Switzerland which he accepts. Later down the road in 1872 he publishes his first book called The Birth of Tragedy. He continues to publish many more books throughout his life. These books still influence the way we think today. In 1889 he suffers from a mental breakdown causing him to be thrown into a mental institution …show more content…
This Overman is a super being, much more than the average joe. Overman is like that of gods. Overcoming all basics of the average human being. The Overman lives the Will to Power, seeking more Power, seeking for every obstacle the Overman can face. The overman creates his own values, his own morals, overcoming all man. (Hongladarom, 2011). Nietzsche said [Quote] I teach you the Ubermensch. Man is something that shall be overcome.. What is ape to the man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just the same shall man be to the Ubermensch. (Nietzsche, 2005). [End Quote] But something the Overman knows that man doesn’t is everlasting peace with Eternal Recurrence. Eternal Recurrence is Nietzsche’s belief that everything that is happening right now will happen again in the future, and has happened already in the past infinite amount of times over and over already. And this semi-nihilistic idea does not scare the Overman like it would ordinary man. The Overman rejoices it in! The Overman still finds meanings in everything happening over and over again. (Hongladarom, 2011).
General Purpose: To inform
Specific Purpose Statement: I want my audience to understand Nietzsche's ideas
Thesis Statement: He as many great ideas about the metaphysical world
Type of Informative Speech: Explanation
Pattern of Organization: Intro, General Life, Will to Power, Ubermensch, Eternal Recurrence Friedrich Nietzsche’s Philosophy
Introduction
How many of you have seen the movies Groundhogs Day, Devil’s Advocate or Fight club? These great films all have occurrences of Nietzsche’s philosophies in them that I am going to discuss today. Growing up I always loved philosophy, the idea of deep thinking, asking questions, just plain wondering about the world around me. I had a burning desire to learn as much as …show more content…
He had one sister and one brother. His sister Elisabeth played a major role in Nietzsche’s philosophy after his death. But Nietzsche never knew his brother for too long as Josef his brother died at an early age of 2 years old. At the same time of his brother’s death his father too passed away. Leaving Friedrich living in a household solely of females, his sister, mother, aunts, and grandmother. Friedrich growing up was tremendously smart, in 1858 he received a scholarship to Schulpforta, Germany’s leading protestant boarding school. After boarding school he went on to attend at the University of Leipzig where he was first introduced to the works of Arthur Schopenhauer, and philosopher Friedrich A. Langes. These men had a huge influence on Nietzsche’s thinking. In the middle of University he was called to serve a mandatory year of military service. While he was in the military he got seriously injured which led him out of the military and back to his studies in Leipzig. After that at the young age of 25 Nietzsche is offered a professorship at the University of Basel in Switzerland which he accepts. Later down the road in 1872 he publishes his first book called The Birth of Tragedy. He continues to publish many more books throughout his life. These books still influence the way we think today. In 1889 he suffers from a mental breakdown causing him to be thrown into a mental institution …show more content…
This Overman is a super being, much more than the average joe. Overman is like that of gods. Overcoming all basics of the average human being. The Overman lives the Will to Power, seeking more Power, seeking for every obstacle the Overman can face. The overman creates his own values, his own morals, overcoming all man. (Hongladarom, 2011). Nietzsche said [Quote] I teach you the Ubermensch. Man is something that shall be overcome.. What is ape to the man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just the same shall man be to the Ubermensch. (Nietzsche, 2005). [End Quote] But something the Overman knows that man doesn’t is everlasting peace with Eternal Recurrence. Eternal Recurrence is Nietzsche’s belief that everything that is happening right now will happen again in the future, and has happened already in the past infinite amount of times over and over already. And this semi-nihilistic idea does not scare the Overman like it would ordinary man. The Overman rejoices it in! The Overman still finds meanings in everything happening over and over again. (Hongladarom, 2011).