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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.
In addition, Ludwig Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity influenced young Nietzsche with its argument that people created God, and not the other way around. [31] In June 1865, at the age of 20, Nietzsche wrote to his sister Elisabeth, who was deeply religious, a letter regarding his loss of faith. This letter contains the following statement:
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 German philosopher is still influencing people 120+ years after his death. ... Nietzsche was a German philosopher born in 1844, who, by the age of 24, was the youngest person to become the ...
Ecce homo, standard critical text published by Nietzsche Source; Ecce homo, Wie man wird, was man ist at Project Gutenberg (in original German) Ecce homo, abridged English text at archive.org (Ludovici translation) Nietzsche's Ecce homo, Notebooks and Letters: 1888–1889 / Translation by Daniel Fidel Ferrer (2023
Cover of the first edition of "Vom Nutzen und Nachtheil der Historie für das Leben" (the second essay of the work), 1874. Untimely Meditations (German: Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen), also translated as Unfashionable Observations [1] and Thoughts Out of Season, [2] consists of four works by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, started in 1873 and completed in 1876.
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 ...
Nietzsche's first note on the "eternal recurrence", written "at the beginning of August 1881 in Sils-Maria, 6000 ft above sea level and much higher above all human regards! -" Nachlass, notebook M III 1, p. 53. Nietzsche was born into, and largely remained within, the Bildungsbürgertum, a sort of highly cultivated middle class.