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Nietzsche's concept "God is dead" applies to the doctrines of Christendom, though not to all other faiths: he claimed that Buddhism is a successful religion that he complimented for fostering critical thought. [161] Still, Nietzsche saw his philosophy as a counter-movement to nihilism through appreciation of art:
In his opposition to Christian tradition and modern philosophy Nietzsche also criticized the concepts of soul, subject and atomism (that is, the existence of an atomic subject at the foundation of everything, found for example in social contract theories). He considered the individual subject as a complex of instincts and wills-to-power, just ...
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.
"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.
According to Paul F. Glenn, Nietzsche is arguing that "concepts are metaphors which do not correspond to reality." [ 4 ] Although all concepts are metaphors invented by humans (created by common agreement to facilitate ease of communication), writes Nietzsche, human beings forget this fact after inventing them, and come to believe that they are ...
However, the concept was never systematically defined in Nietzsche's work, leaving its interpretation open to debate. [1] Usage of the term by Nietzsche can be summarized as self-determination , the concept of actualizing one's will onto one's self or one's surroundings, and coincides heavily with egoism .
Within transhumanism is the concept of the “new man,” a utopian ideal of the perfect person, a concept coopted decades after Nietzsche’s death by non-Democratic movements ranging from ...
Deleuze, arguably the foremost of Nietzsche's Leftist interpreters, used the much-maligned "will to power" thesis in tandem with Marxian notions of commodity surplus and Freudian ideas of desire to articulate concepts such as the rhizome and other "outsides" to state power as traditionally conceived.