Friedrich  Nietzsche(1844-1900)

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Historical ContextFriedrich Nietzsche

• During the early 1800's Christianity was the leading religion in Europe, causing Nietzsche and other Aeithists to be completely shunned from society.

• The Franco-Prussian war drafted Nietzsche and other young men to fight in the conflict.

• Nietzsche served as a medical assistant.• Anti-semetism gained popularity

throughout German druing this time.

Contributions and Main Ideas• Stands strong against democracy, also

that it was created from Christianity.• Had an idealism of The Master Race,

which gave a great influence on Hitler's highest men, quoted in Hitler's speeches.

• His core belief was that "there are no facts-only interperitations". He took interest to different peoples interperitations of reality.

The will to power• Achievment and ambition to strive to be

in the highest possible position in life. "After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.""

Biography

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born October 15th 1844 in the town of Röcken bei Lützen, Germany In 1849 Nietzsches father died six months later Niestzsches two year old brother Ludwig died following their deaths the Nietzsches moved to Naumburg an der Saale where he attended a first-rate boarding school Schulpforta University of Basel offered Nietzsche a position1869 at the age of 24 and taught there for ten years.  In 1872 Nietzche wrote The Birth of Tragedy it was not recevied wellIn 1878 He wrote Human, All-Too-Human In 1879 he left the University of Basel due to heath problems  From 1880 to 1889 Nietzche led nomadic life in europe during this time wrote most of his well known work Daybreak (1881), The Gay Science (1882/1887), Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–85), Beyond Good and Evil (1886), On the Genealogy of Morals (1887). The Case of Wagner (May-August 1888), Twilight of the Idols (August-September 1888), The Antichrist (September 1888), Ecce Homo (October-November 1888) and Nietzsche Contra Wagner (December 1888).

January 3, 1889, while in Turin, Nietzsche experienced a mental breakdown.

 He never returned to to full sanity. 

God is dead

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?—Nietzsche, The Gay Science,

Nihilism - is the philosophical doctrine suggesting the negation of one or more putatively meaningful aspects of life. Most commonly, nihilism is presented in the form of existential nihilism which argues that life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value.Nietzsche worked to find a solution to nihilism by re-evaluating the foundations of human values. 

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