I want to start off by saying that Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the more complicated philosophers that I ever had pleasure of studying. What I took away from Friedrich Nietzsche opinions on the death of God is that he was referring to the declining belief and respect for God or religion in general. Nietzsche felt that with the loss of religion the west would lose its distinctive cultural identity. Friedrich Nietzsche was not a big fan of Christianity to say the least, but he still understood its importance and its benefits to the culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, in my humble opinion had a strange outlook on morality.…
Kafka’s story "In the Penal Colony" - as a symbolic historical meditation on the origins of punishment, can be demonstrated by comparing certain aspects of this story to Nietzsche’s essay "On the Genealogy of Morals" - which offers a historical account of the origins of punishment and justice. Nietzsche’s essay discusses how humans transform from pre-civilized, e.g., humans in their primal state with little regard for social-obligations; to civilized, e.g., those who comply and conform to the laws of a civilized society, and how this transformation relates to punishment. Nietzsche hypothesizes, that although history shows a transformation from pre-civilized into “the kind of human being that civilization produces” (BCIT, 2000), that punishments,…
The author Friedrich Nietzsche in his text (“The Madman”, 1882) used a narrative to prove a point. To be more specific he wanted to show or demonstrate to people how bad was the status of religion and of faith in Europe around his time (1882-1887) the time when he was publishing “The Gay Science”. The story started with a man who is described as a “madman”. The madman begins by entering a marketplace and starts to shout loudly “I seek God! I seek God!”…
The idea that grief is motivating dates back to the time of Arthur Schopenhauer. He was of the opinion that suffering is the “agens” of philosophical thought meaning that suffering acts as a starting point and as an engine which pulls an individual towards greater heights. Schopenhauer pioneered the idea that suffering boosts creativity. He drew an analogy between human suffering and a rose. He believed that just like a rose grows out of thorns, similarly great works of art are achieved after going through immense suffering.…
He looks at empirical causes to explain the existence of morality in order to reason why it is the way it is. When analyzing his work, would seem like Nietzsche has a hollow concept of justice. What only every seems to be just is what the current laws that exists advocate for. There does not seems to be anything more or anything less to the statement. There is nothing grandeur to justice because the meaning can change just as easily as…
How Siddhartha is going through Nietzsche's Three Metamorphoses For many years intellects from around the world have wondered what the key to true enlightenment is. They have wondered how people can balance their physical and spiritual life, and lead a moral, and satisfying life. With his 1922 novel, Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse addresses these concerns, and through narrating the story of the young prince, tries to answer to these wonders. On a journey of multiple lessons, Siddhartha experiences rebirth, and enlightenment. Moreso, these rebirths Siddhartha undergoes are a representation of the young Brahmin going through the Three Metamorphoses that are seen in Nietzsche’s…
The Führer, on the other hand, had a more nebulous relationship with Nietzsche’s writings. While Hitler appropriated Nietzsche’s ideas into his ideology, he never actually read his works personally. There were, however, stories and rumors spread throughout Germany regarding the two. Viennese actress Rosa Albach-Petty, for example, reportedly heard a story from a friend of a young workman named Adolf Hitler who asked to borrow Thus Spoke Zarathustra and another book by Nietzsche, saying, “‘almost solemnly,’” “‘I promise you ma’am, that I will cherish the books like life itself.’”…
John Stuart Mill and Friedrich Nietzsche both analyzed the outlooks fostered by the ancients, Christianity and modern morality in regard to the qualities of character that each group developed. The two men held similar views regarding the Christians and modern morality believing that each was creating a herd like mentality where individualism was being suppressed. The two interestingly differed on their view of the ancients, where Nietzsche disagreed with their rationality, Mill praised their individualism. For starters, Nietzsche viewed the character that each society developed in the context of whether or not they fostered the will to power. Will to power for Nietzsche was the driving force of man, and he believed that any hindrance or alteration…
This essay will show how identities are fluid from the view of Nietzsche and Bauman. However, both believe in the fluidity of identity for very different reasons, which I believe is due to their contrasting time of writing. The issue of identity has been a prominent matter within philosophy since Plato and is more relevant than ever today with the rise of social media and current changing views that are moving towards populism and anti-establishment. My hypothesis is that Bauman is correct in his view of identity as he provides a very accurate account of how things are in the twenty-first century, based on factual social evidence. On the other hand, Nietzsche’s view can no longer be relevant today from his inconsistency and reliance on myth,…
In the above quote, Nietzsche refers to mankind's accomplishments in understanding and changing the world. In his statement "we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it? " I believe Nietzsche, is trying to communicate that mankind must think of a new philosophy of the world. Ultimately mankind should not see ourselves as gods. Nietzsche is communicating fear that the world is moving away from god as a neutral figure and foundation for morality.…
Nietzsche frequently challenged the foundations of the Christian faith and resented Christianity due to his belief that it protected people from their envy (School of Life, 2014). Christians, Nietzsche proclaimed, desired the real elements of fulfilment in life, such as status, sex, intellect and creativity, however were too incompetent to attain them (School of Life, 2014). As a result, the Christian tradition made suffering tolerable by constructing it as God’s will (Magnus, 2016). This belief led Nietzsche to write in his work, the Twilight of the Idols (1888) that there had been “two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.” (School of Life,…
Dylan Bartikofsky General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose Statement: I want my audience to understand Nietzsche's ideas Thesis Statement: He as many great ideas about the metaphysical world Type of Informative Speech: Explanation Pattern of Organization: Intro, General Life, Will to Power, Ubermensch, Eternal Recurrence Friedrich Nietzsche’s Philosophy Introduction How many of you have seen the movies Groundhogs Day, Devil’s Advocate or Fight club? These great films all have occurrences of Nietzsche’s philosophies in them that I am going to discuss today. Growing up I always loved philosophy, the idea of deep thinking, asking questions, just plain wondering about the world around me.…
In his work “Beyond Good and Evil”, Nietzsche argues that the concept of “good” and “evil” are initially designated by those individuals with the political and social power to live their lives by sheer will (master morality abiders) whist the others who lack this force are doomed to be subjected to their power (slave morality abiders) until eventually the latter overthrows their masters. One of the main themes Nietzsche formulates in this work is that ancient Roman society was grounded in master morality, and that this morality disappeared as the slave morality of Christianity spread through ancient Rome. According to him, the struggle between master and slave moralities recurs historically, as he argues that ancient Greek and Roman societies…
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 society, and the theoretical man will never be truly satisfied and will suffer from depression for his entire life.…
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 a clear understanding of what the phrase means and how it is to be read before one can fully analyse the truth of the statement. Theologians have disputed there are numerous interpretations to the Nietzsche’s philosophy, with Hudson suggesting four key meanings: psychological, sociological, ontological and theological respectively .…