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The Philosophy Of Freidrich Nietzche
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First published January 17, 2007
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July 2, 2019
John Goodman’s character Walter Sobchak in Big Lebowski said, “Nihilists! F*** me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.�
Nietzsche was the philosophical godfather of National Socialism and was opposed to the spiritual and metaphysical vacuum of nihilism. Rejecting Schopenhauer’s pessimistic didacticism, he brazenly declared that God was dead and that a brighter future here on this world was available and to be sought.
Fun fact: Nietzche was an accomplished xylophone player.
Provocative as his ideas are, and there are definitely some points that seem lucid, I cannot help think of Nietzsche as the grown-up who as a kid was beaten up on the playground. It is also important to distinguish his ideas from the actions of his fervent students in the 1930s and 1940s, as serpentine as his logic on this point can be, he does reject outright barbarism, though a student of history cannot help but link Nazi excesses to a continuation of this philosophy.
Perhaps most poignant is his discussion of slave morality and how this criticism affects his stance on modern religion. Still, his influence on the world since is unmistakable and a study of his thinking is essential to a complete understanding of modern western thought.
Just kidding about the xylophone BTW. ;)
Nietzsche was the philosophical godfather of National Socialism and was opposed to the spiritual and metaphysical vacuum of nihilism. Rejecting Schopenhauer’s pessimistic didacticism, he brazenly declared that God was dead and that a brighter future here on this world was available and to be sought.
Fun fact: Nietzche was an accomplished xylophone player.
Provocative as his ideas are, and there are definitely some points that seem lucid, I cannot help think of Nietzsche as the grown-up who as a kid was beaten up on the playground. It is also important to distinguish his ideas from the actions of his fervent students in the 1930s and 1940s, as serpentine as his logic on this point can be, he does reject outright barbarism, though a student of history cannot help but link Nazi excesses to a continuation of this philosophy.
Perhaps most poignant is his discussion of slave morality and how this criticism affects his stance on modern religion. Still, his influence on the world since is unmistakable and a study of his thinking is essential to a complete understanding of modern western thought.
Just kidding about the xylophone BTW. ;)
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April 4, 2021
Nietzche, in my opinion, is the philosopher that closed the gap between science and philosophy. He is so lucid and aware of the world around him that it's very hard to not acknowledge his ideas as objective and correct in every way. Even Sigmund Freud was inspired by him in his work about psychoanalysis.
July 15, 2021
En todos los lugares donde encontré seres vivos, encontré voluntad de poder.
September 10, 2024
interesting
October 3, 2007
He wrote critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive style and displaying a fondness for aphorism. Nietzsche's influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism and postmodernism. Nietzsche's style, and his radical questioning of the value and objectivity of truth, raise considerable problems of interpretation, generating an extensive secondary literature in both continental and analytic philosophy. Nonetheless, his key ideas include interpreting tragedy as an affirmation of life, an eternal recurrence that has fallen into numerous interpretations, and a reversal of Platonism.
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