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In the First Treatise, Nietzsche introduces one of his most controversial images, the "blond beast". He had previously employed this expression to represent the lion, an image that is central to his philosophy and made its first appearance in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Beyond the metaphorical lion, Nietzsche expressively associates the "blond ...
The Blond Beast or The Blonde Beast may refer to: A metaphor used in On the Genealogy of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche; A nickname for Reinhard Heydrich, ...
The boy on the bicycle, called "Life" in the short story, punches Lobgott after Lobgott grabs his bicycle. A trivialization of the blond beast, the embodiment of ruthless energy, Nietzsche's Übermensch. [5]
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche [ii] (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. [14] He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy.
Nietzsche argues that there are two fundamental types of morality: "master morality" and "slave morality", which correspond, respectively, to the dichotomies of "good/bad" and "good/evil". In master morality, "good" is a self-designation of the aristocratic classes; it is synonymous with nobility and everything powerful and life-affirming.
Raymond Geuss has compared Nietzsche's view of language, as expressed in this essay, to be similar to that of the later Wittgenstein's, in its de-emphasis of "the distinction between literal and metaphorical usage." [7] A few decades prior Erich Heller had similarly noted a comparison between Nietzsche's thoughts on language and Wittgenstein. [8]
Nietzsche's focus is on the psychology and social life of the philosopher, identifying misanthropy and seclusion as the result of being motivated toward knowledge itself, regardless of any features of the philosopher's cosmology, physics, or epistemology. [3] Nietzsche concludes the essay by identifying a need to have art along with
Nietzsche would speak against anti-Semitism in other works including Thus Spoke Zarathustra and, most strongly, in The Antichrist: [21] "An anti-Semite is certainly not any more decent because he lies as a matter of principle". [22] In Zarathustra, Nietzsche set Wagner up as a straw man, lampooning his anti-Semitism in the process.