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Nietzsche in 1869. Friedrich Nietzsche's influence and reception varied widely and may be roughly divided into various chronological periods. Reactions were anything but uniform, and proponents of various ideologies attempted to appropriate his work quite early.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche [ii] (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philologist, philosopher, poet, cultural critic and composer who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. [14] He began his career as a classical philologist, turning to philosophy early in his academic career.
Friedrich Nietzsche, in circa 1875. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) developed his philosophy during the late 19th century. He owed the awakening of his philosophical interest to reading Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (The World as Will and Representation, 1819, revised 1844) and said that Schopenhauer was one of the few thinkers that he respected, dedicating to him ...
Much of Nietzsche’s writings, obscure in his own lifetime, foreshadowed a 20th century full of what he called “nihilism,” especially his famous proclamation, “God is dead.”
The Übermensch (/ ˈ uː b ər m ɛ n ʃ / OO-bər-mensh, German: [ˈʔyːbɐmɛnʃ] ⓘ; lit. 'Overman' or 'Superman') is a concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.In his 1883 book, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (German: Also sprach Zarathustra), Nietzsche has his character Zarathustra posit the Übermensch as a goal for humanity to set for itself.
German Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzschean Zionism was a movement arising from the influence that the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche had on Zionism and several of its influential thinkers. [1] Zionism was the movement for the attainment of freedom for the Jewish people through the establishment of a Jewish state. [2]
75 Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes. 1. "To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering." 2. "We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving ...
Master–slave morality (German: Herren- und Sklavenmoral) is a central theme of Friedrich Nietzsche's works, particularly in the first essay of his book On the Genealogy of Morality. Nietzsche argues that there are two fundamental types of morality : "master morality" and "slave morality", which correspond, respectively, to the dichotomies of ...