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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche. Giorgina Paiella. Brief Biography. German philosopher Born in Prussian province of Saxony in 1844 Family of many Lutheran ministers Father died of a brain ailment when he was 5 Two-year-old brother died six months later Attended university for theology and philology

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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  1. Friedrich Nietzsche Giorgina Paiella

  2. Brief Biography • German philosopher • Born in Prussian province of Saxony in 1844 • Family of many Lutheran ministers • Father died of a brain ailment when he was 5 • Two-year-old brother died six months later • Attended university for theology and philology • Gave up Prussian citizenship in 1869- remained stateless; mostly Germany, Switzerland, and Italy • Died in 1900 after mental deterioration

  3. Shaping Forces • Death • Religion • War • Franco-Prussian • Sickness and physical ailment • Inspirational figures • (Schopenhauer and Wagner) • University studies • Curiosity about human condition Arthur Schopenhauer

  4. Theories • Criticized religion • Atheist • Escape for the weak • Focused on human behavior • Power and fear • Self-control • Enhancement of the individual • “Life affirmation” • World of phenomena • Senses • Lack of nationalities • Europe • Lack of allegiance and citizenship • Time as repetition • Wheel

  5. Major Works and Style • The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, The Antichrist, Will to Power • Style • Eloquent • Passionate • Many interpretations • Allusions • Biblical • Aphorisms • “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

  6. Nihilism • Negation of meaningful aspects of life • Existential nihilism: lacks meaning, purpose, and value • Diagnosis of modern society • "I praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Whether man recovers from it, whether he becomes master of this crisis, is a question of his strength!” • Lack loyalties • Examined its implications on society

  7. Associations and Contributions • Nihilism • Existentialism • Human experience (subjectivity) • Individual giving life meaning • Writers, artists, and thinkers • Freud, Camus, Hesse, Sartre etc. • Style • Aphorisms • Passion and elaboration • Interpretations • Nazism • Fatalism • Individual

  8. Quotes • “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” • Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.” • “Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is.” • “All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. “ • “God is dead.”

  9. Relation to Russia andCrime and Punishment • Turin horse incident 1889 • Dream scene before committed murder • Psychology • Dreams • Inner conflict • Morality • Influenced Russian thought • Dostoevsky shaped by similar forces • Physical ailments, suffering, human nature • Precursor/founder to Existentialism • Nietzsche interested in him • Abstracts of several works Fyodor Dostoevsky

  10. Modern References • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6s_gNgYhHo

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