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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]
1900 – Friedrich Nietzsche died after a mental breakdown. 1901 – Paul Rée fell to his death from a mountain. 1903 – Otto Weininger committed suicide by shooting himself. 1906 – Ludwig Boltzmann hanged himself. 1910 – Carlo Michelstaedter killed himself with a pistol he had in his house.
"God is dead" (German: Gott ist tot [ɡɔt ɪst toːt] ⓘ; also known as the death of God) is a statement made by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.The first instance of this statement in Nietzsche's writings is in his 1882 The Gay Science, where it appears three times.
The German philosopher is still influencing people 120+ years after his death.
This is an example of Nietzsche's reaction against Schopenhauer, who had based all morality on compassion. Nietzsche, on the contrary, praises "virtue free of moralic acid". [4] Nietzsche goes on to say that mankind, out of fear, has bred a weak, sick type of human. He blames Christianity for demonizing strong, higher humans.
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.
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