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The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche remains very misunderstood because of his mental condition and his writings. Even the translation from German to other languages (English, French, or Spanish) creates difficulties because Nietzsche meaning is complex. He was influenced many authors, thinkers, and philosophers like Arthur Schopenhauer, Immanuel Kant, and Voltaire. His ethics came at a time where Germany was an influence on the world, but not a superpower and Judeo-Christian morals were…

Nietzsche’s method begins with the doubt: is there a distinction between a thing and its meaning. The same things have different meaning at the different time, but people usually consume that it is all the same. He also shows the valuation “good and evil”, “good and bad”. To the noble, “good” is powerful and life-asserting. The “evil” is equal with what the noble calls it “good”. The weak is oppressed by the noble, but the noble still called that is “good”. They came themselves as good when they…

Nietzsche is a German philosopher who prefers writing in aphorisms (rather than essays) and uses irony, sarcasm, and poetry to express his ideas. The main thing that he always talks about is the fact believed by him, that GOD IS DEAD. In Zarathustra’s prologue when Zarathustra was alone he spoke thus to his heart: “Could it be possible! This old saint in his woods has not yet heard the news that God is dead!” Another important concept is the contrast between the overman and the last man. The…

Cheryl Carroll Dr. Ford Philosophy 1301 3 November 2014 A Comparative Analysis of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil with King’s Letter from Birmingham 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…

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…

Both Nietzsche and Marx challenge the dominant ideas in their societies. For Nietzsche, the dominate idea was Christian morality, and for Marx, capitalistic ideology. Two people differentiate in their ways of argument and intentions of arguments. By comparing the nobles and everyone else and explaining bad conscience, meaning the feeling of duty and obligation, as an evolved inwards punishment from which people enjoy themselves, Nietzsche points out the petty past of the widely embraced…

After comprehensively examining one of the writings of well-known German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, titled, “Beyond Good and Evil,” I was able to perceive several elements that characterize his work to be knowledgeable, thought-provoking, and obscure. Although difficult to decipher because of his abundance of knowledge, it became evident through his reading that he detested ideas of nationalism; relatively alike, the indication of commonwealth principles, too. Despite the fact that…

ne of the ethical philosophy that interest me is the Nietzsche’s ethical philosophy. Nietzsche 's moral philosophy is primarily critical in orientation: he attacks morality both for its commitment to untenable descriptive (metaphysical and empirical) claims about human agency, as well as for the deleterious impact of its distinctive norms and values on the flourishing of the highest types of human beings (Nietzsche 's “higher men”) (Stanford 2016). His positive ethical views are best understood…

Although Immanuel Kant and Nietzsche differed on some philosophical ideologies, yet the influence imposed on our current culture is a result of their innovative way of understanding the world around us. Today 's society follows similar ideologies, Nietzsche would oppose like, conformity, materialism, and knowledge. By the same token, the advancement of greed, envy, and technology would support Nietzsche 's philosophy. Our culture has placed more emphasis on a logical and factual method of…

Apollonian: The word Apollonian is an adjective that refers to the God Apollo of the Greek or Roman mythology. Apollo is the messenger Gods; the God of light, spring or youth, medicine and the art of music and also sometimes identified with the sun. He is a son of Zeus and one of the twelve main Gods. The adjective Apollonian was first used by the German philosopher F. W. J. Schelling and later by another German philosopher, F. Nietzsche, who explains it further in combination with the adjective…