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[H]e covers a range of issues far greater than the social and psychological area of interest to La Rochefoucauld. To the cynicism typical of the genre, Nietzsche brings a new dimension by his combination of nihilistic energy with historical consciousness. Finally, he expands the genre to include not merely insights, but argument as well." [7]: xix
A nihilist is a man who judges that the real world ought not to be and that the world as it ought to do not exist. According to this view, our existence (action, suffering , willing, feeling) has no meaning: this 'in vain' is the nihilists' pathos—an inconsistency on the part of the nihilists.
The last man (German: Letzter Mensch) is a term used by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in Thus Spoke Zarathustra to describe the antithesis of his theorized superior being, the Übermensch, whose imminent appearance is heralded by Zarathustra. The last man is the archetypal passive nihilist. He is tired of life, takes no risks, and seeks ...
This is a bibliography of works about 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.. There have been many bibliographies documenting works about Nietzsche, the most comprehensive is considered to be the Weimarer Nietzsche-Bibliographie published between 2000 and 2002, listing over 20,000 items from 1867 to 1998, volume 1 consisting of Nietzsche's own works and translations in 42 languages ...
[10] [full citation needed] Nietzsche returned to "the sacred place" in the summer of 1883 and he "found" the second part. [9] [full citation needed] Nietzsche was in Nice the following winter and he "found" the third part. [9] [full citation needed] According to Nietzsche in Ecce Homo it was "scarcely one year for the entire work", and ten ...
Nietzsche found in classical Athenian tragedy an art form that transcended the pessimism and nihilism of a fundamentally meaningless world. Originally educated as a philologist, Nietzsche discusses the history of the tragic form and introduces an intellectual dichotomy between the Dionysian and the Apollonian (very loosely: reality as disordered and undifferentiated by forms versus reality as ...
The Peacock and the Buffalo: The Poetry of Nietzsche, Published July 8, 2010; Dionysian Dithyrambs; Nietzsche’s Last Twenty Two Notebooks: complete [1886-1889] January 2021. Translation by Daniel Fidel Ferrer. Free online. See notebook number 20, there are 168 notes and are almost all poems or poem fragments. 20 [1-168] summer 1888 (Pages ...
In Nietzsche's view, if one is to accept a non-sensory, unchanging world as superior and our sensory world as inferior, then one is adopting a hatred of nature and thus a hatred of the sensory world – the world of the living. Nietzsche postulates that only one who is weak, sickly or ignoble would subscribe to such a belief.