Friedrich Nietzsche

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…

In the article “Good and Evil, Good and Bad” Friedrich Nietzsche argues that morality emerges when ressentiment becomes creative and begins to have values. He claims that ressentiment comes from the “slaves revolt” and that the nobles are the ones that have complete power. Society is very predictable; you are free to make your own future and that is called “conscience” but Nietzsche flips that around and it become “bad conscience” along with the feeling of guilt which comes from the relationship…

The Plato-Nietzsche crisis is a paradox, because if language were to continue being categorized there would be a jumbled mess that the Webster dictionary could not help, or if language were to stop being categorized there would be a massive amount of words with the…

Of those philosophers who seek to define life in some way, mostly positively, there are a set of provoking souls who seek to uproot any optimistic perspective such as Friedrich Nietzsche. He sees life as a bleak, ephemeral, meaningless, and deceptive time from birth until death as he explains in the essay “On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense.” One of the subjects he especially focuses on is the topic of metaphors in language and naming empirical objects that surround us. When a human hears…

Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche were two of the most prominent philosophers in the period following the enlightenment. Kierkegaard was from Denmark, and skillfully used pseudonyms and fictional characters to present his work. Nietzsche was from Germany, and was a ruthless critic of morality, Christianity, and many other aspects of the society he lived in. In Kierkegaard’s first work Either/Or, he uses fictional characters by the names of A and Judge William to preach the aesthetic…

In Bangkok, Thailand, I faced several prejudices mostly because I was poor. Back in my country, the families had to pay for their children’s education. So those that born into the families of doctors, lawyers, entrepreneurs, politician, and other high paying occupation get to go to the “fancy” school. Growing up in a family of single mom who sell insurance and second hand clothing for a living did not help me much in school. No money mean no future in Thailand. One cannot be successful in life…

“Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me,” said Friedrich Nietzsche a German Philosopher. This German philosopher believed in nihilism, which is a philosophy that rejects all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless. This perspective on the world is continued, in the novel Grendel, by John Gardner, as the main character Grendel goes through different philosophies, from solipsism to nihilism. Grendel…

another German philosopher, F. Nietzsche, who explains it further in combination with the adjective Dionysian in his book “The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music” in the year 1872. In most cases, the word Apollonian is capitalized, albeit being an adjective. Apollonian describes character qualities of reason, culture and intelligence in…

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” Friedrich Nietzsche encapsulates the paradox of humankind — a desperate desire to save the world coupled with a dangerous susceptibility to becoming the very monster to be slain. Man’s ability to rationalize allows him to rebuff the guilt over his most treacherous decisions, but the guilt remains, pilfering away at his faith in…

Jaffe, Michael Mr. Scott Morse Personal Development Planning (BRM4007) 16th April, 2016 The Abyss It is said that we become our fixations; According to Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, “If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.” (Aphorism 146). While Nietzsche is talking about monsters, I for one find that this reflective action can provide insights both meaningful and practical. The most accessible source of information to anyone is oneself; Thus I propose that…