Nietzsche's Philosophy

Nietzsche begins by tearing apart the philosopher and his views. They idolize concepts and threaten the life of anything they worship. In Nietzsche’s opinion, once the philosophers got to these concepts nothing managed to escape alive. In response Nietzsche says, “that which is, does not become; that which becomes, is not.” Nietzsche explains that the philosophers all believe in the which is, however they fail to understand so instead they search for a reason why it withholds itself from them. Finally this “trickster” is revealed and is the senses. The senses are believed to have tricked them about the true world. Nietzsche reveals a moral as to not trust history because it is nothing but belief in the senses, which has discovered to be a lie.
By doing this they have cut off the growth of this idea or concept and have kept it stagnant. Nietzsche reveals another moral regarding this action, “everything that is the first rank must be the cause of itself,” meaning in order to be placed first the concept must be unquestionably good, perfect and possess no doubt. After establishing this, Nietzsche moves on to the “problem of error and illusion.” Nietzsche explains that we are obliged by the predisposition of reason that we perceive ourselves to be swept up and knotted in error on the basis of a rigorous self-examination; and this is where the error lies. Nietzsche then provides insight as to a discovery made many years later. Philosophers were stunned to discover their previous certainty in controlling the categories of reason from experience was a falsehood. The questions then came as to “where did they come from (being)?” Nietzsche says, “nothing up to now has been more naively persuasive than the error of being.” In an attempt to aid his listeners understanding Nietzsche created four theses concerning his ‘“Reason” in Philosophy.” The first proposition explains that this world in which we live in is regarded as “apparent” or “grounds for its reality” any other reality cannot