Friedrich Engels

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…

Monika Pareek Professor Chandra British Literature (Early 20th Century) 6th October 2015 Nihilism and the Idea of Darkness in Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness was written more than a century ago and was first published in 1899. In much the same way as in the novel, where Marlow could observe that almost all the blank spots on the map had been filled, the world at the end of the 20th century had all but been explored. The 19th century was coming to an end and the French…

Ryan Harter Essay I “We are unknown to ourselves...We have never looked at ourselves," says Nietzsche in the prologue to On the Genealogy of Morals. In order to understand ourselves, we need to examine at our values--how we acquired them, and the legitimacy, or value, of that original acquisition. Nietzsche thinks that we can find the foundations of our moral beliefs if we can develop an accurate genealogy. There's a history of ideas about what's good and what isn't good, and by tracking that…

First let us dissect Nietzsche view of the will to power. As with Schopenhauer Nietzsche sees all things are based off of our primal will. Everything that is, is caused by this will. There are some key difference between Schopenhauer’s view of the will and Nietzsche’s view of the will. The topic is quite large and deserves its own thesis but the basics are that Schopenhauer’s view of will lead him to believe that the best way to exist is to give up, that your existence is solely suffering.…

The process of putting two disparate philosophers in dialogue with each other, in an attempt to reconcile their views, is an old philosophical tradition. Early Christians grappled with making platonic theory and catholic doctrine compatible. The great scholars of Bagdad worked to let Aristotle and the Quran stand side by side. While it may seem like such attempts are simply efforts to “have cake and eat it too”, there is much to be learned from evaluating a text in light of what may at first…

philosophers and thinkers have tried to answer this, and have composed strikingly different conceptions. Some of the most notable thinkers are Friedrich Nietzsche and Thomas Hobbes. Both try to provide the most accurate representation of the human being. Through understanding the human person, we are able to formulate a description of the good life. Friedrich Nietzsche defines us as a human being through the state of becoming, that in our nature we are an unfinished product. Who we are is in…

In the 1882 collection The Gay Science German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche first stated the idea “God is dead!” a point which he later referred back to throughout his body of work. The death of God has become a widely quoted statement and as such has met various interpretations and misinterpretations leading to a wide general debate as to whether Nietzsche was actually correct in proclaiming the death of God. In answering this question, it becomes of fundamental importance that there must be…

Seminal German philosopher Frederick Nietzsche published On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life in 1874. Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Historie für das Leben in the original German, the work is also often translated as “The Use and Misuse of History for Life.” The seventy-page work is packed with philosophical inquiries into the role historical knowledge plays in an individual’s life and how this knowledge can best be used to improve one’s wellbeing. It is the second work in a…

According to Nietzsche, The first essay in his book “Genealogy of Morality’’ that there are two kinds of morals that is master morality and the slave morality. For master morality, good is the powerful beautiful, and glorious while bad is the weak and the ugly. Slave morality on the other hand call the masters evil for having no reservations on how they use their power over the weak. This therefore makes the compassionate and the respectful weak good. What Nietzsche seeks to establish is that…

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, social critic, poet, philologist / linguist, and Greek / Latin scholar whose work has made a weighty impact on Western philosophy and modern history. He was acclaimed as “The Critic of All That Exists” for his negative criticism of our social norms and how we blindly follow. Nietzsche was born on October 15, 1844 in Röcken, Germany, He began his career as a classical philologist which is the study of language, it is also a combination of…