Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

German philosopher, poet, composer, and cultural critic. He wrote texts on religion, morality, philosophy, contemporary culture and science with many metaphors, irony and aphorism. He believes in life-affirmation by questioning all doctrines that drain life's expansive energies (most influential on existentialism, post-modernism, and post-structuralism).


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  • Nietzsche began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy.
  • Nietzsche's key ideas include the "death of God", the Übermensch, the eternal recurrence, the Apollonian and Dionysian dichotomy, perspectivism, and the will to power.

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Nietzsche was a literary genius of his time. With his many aphorisms Nietzsche made who he was. One of his many aphorisms is the idea of "what can't kill you, makes you stronger". In almost every style of writing he wrote, as you'll read in the first listed article, Nietzsche was able to reach out to many different groups such as feminists, anti-feminists  etc. In these writings he compiled ideas a top of ideas all of which any one group could relate too. He denounced Christianity in the following quote: “God is dead”; “It is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified”; “There are no facts, only interpretations.” As you can tell, Nietzsche was a very strong existentialist, he believed in himself and nothing else.


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