Friedrich Nietzsche

The disputation of March 11, focused on the philosophical work of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Nietzsche was a German philosopher who lived from 1844-1900. In his work, Nietzsche had two major contributions to the field of philosophy. The first was his theory on the death of God. This theory was first published during Nietzsche’s early philosophical career. His second theory was that on good and evil. This was published in his work titled On the Genealogy of Morality, First Essay. This…

2100 2/3/2017 Matzke- HW 1 Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche was a brilliant philosopher and influencer on modern thinking and published numerous works in philosophy. One of his books that I’ve come across in the past is Beyond Good and Evil. Nietzsche argues that most conscious thinking tends to be informed strictly by instinct. To understand what Nietzsche means, we need to understand his conception of the will to power. Nietzsche aims at freeing higher human beings (masters)…

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…

This poem speaks to my perspective on altruism and acts of kindness. I believe that a person should help others in need whenever possible and not expect anything material in return. Helping others makes me feel fulfilled and gratified and that alone is more than enough. This poem highlights the belief that acts of kindness do not demand anything in return and that they benefit both parties. Without the Sun, the Earth and everything on Earth would cease to exist; the Sun is sustaining life.…

creator of “apparent truths” (Nietzsche, 133). The knights willing of the impossible acts to create the new. There is also an internal creation. Nietzsche tells the reader that one must shape one’s self, or give style. He explains “It is practiced by those who survey everything that their nature offers in the way of strengths and weaknesses, then fit them all in to an artistic plan, until each thing appears as art and reason, and even the weakness charms the eye” (Nietzsche, 144). It is in this…

creation is blind and heartless and man is abandoned in a mechanical universe. A cosmic knitting-machine could not be more unlike a meticulously creating divinity, where man is the centerpiece of a master plan. The consequences of the theocide of which Nietzsche sighted as the sign of the nihilistic era can be discerned in this vision. In a mechanical cosmos, man is a victim; a significant reduction of man's spiritual position since the pre-Copernican time. Like an unstoppable juggernaut, the…

The periscope of interest for this paper is Friedrich Nietzsche’s article, “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense.” Nietzsche was categorized as a post-modern philosopher who, through his works, had a tremendous influence on Western philosophy. The particular piece of writing discussed here deals with the relationship that human language has on the formation of truths and lies. The meaning behind the text, if true, essentially makes us rethink everything we think we know. “On Truth and Lies…

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…

Friedrich Nietzsche strongly opposes the Socratic way of thinking. Socrates wanted to eliminate all remnants of myth and tragedy in modern culture and replace it with an age of reason where the theoretical man has the most power. The theoretical man wishes to reveal all of the world’s secrets before him because he is following Socrates’ belief that “knowledge is virtue”. Nietzsche opposes this idea for two reasons: the elimination of myth and tragedy from the world will make us unfulfilled as a…

The Splitting of Consciousness: Dostoevsky, Hegel and Nietzsche While writing The Birth of Tragedy in 1872, Friedrich Nietzsche had been heavily influenced by the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, which led him to theorize that human nature was, at its core, “driven by the primitive forces of desire, violence, and fear” (Wallace 124). Further influenced by the works of German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, Nietzsche speculated that there existed two worlds that coexist – one ruled by Apollo and one…