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The phrase Reverence for Life is a translation of the German phrase: "Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben."These words came to Albert Schweitzer on a boat trip on the Ogooué River in French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon), while searching for a universal concept of ethics for our time.
In master morality, "good" is a self-designation of the aristocratic classes; it is synonymous with nobility and everything powerful and life-affirming. "Bad" has no condemnatory implication, merely referring to the "common" or the "low" and the qualities and values associated with them, in contradistinction to the warrior ethos of the ruling ...
Nietzschean affirmation (German: Bejahung) is a concept that has been scholarly identified in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. An example used to describe the concept is a fragment in Nietzsche's The Will to Power :
The first English use of the expression "meaning of life" appears in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), book II chapter IX, "The Everlasting Yea". [1]Our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom, than Voluntary Force: thus have we a warfare; in the beginning, especially, a hard-fought battle.
The official revocation of his citizenship came in a document dated 17 April 1869, [104] and for the rest of his life he remained officially stateless. Bust of Nietzsche, by Max Klinger, 1903–1904, at the Städel, Frankfurt. At least toward the end of his life, Nietzsche believed his ancestors were Polish. [105]
Lebensphilosophie (German: [ˈleːbm̩s.filozoˌfiː]; meaning 'philosophy of life') was a dominant philosophical movement of German-speaking countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which had developed out of German Romanticism. Lebensphilosophie emphasised the meaning, value and purpose of life as the foremost focus of philosophy. [1]
Parade gathered 100 synonyms for love to help you express your heart's desires. Each word, whether from a different language, a specific cultural context or a poetic nuance, enriches our ...
Amor fati is a Latin phrase that may be translated as "love of fate" or "love of one's fate".It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary.