According to Nietzsche in this section‚ the good life consists of power and overcoming obstacles. The bad life comes from weakness. Nietzsche says that humans desire power and that anything proceeding from weakness is bad. Happiness comes from an increase in power and the weak are destroyed. He believes that providing sympathy to those who display immoral conduct is worse than immoral acts by themselves. This is what he sees Christianity as and is greatly opposed to it. Concupiscence and cupidity
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In 1844‚ Friedrich Nietzsche was born in a small village in present day Germany. Nevertheless‚ he would grow up to become one of the most recognized philosophers. One of his revolutionary ideas spoke of the feeling of power. It was referred to as “On the Doctrine of the Feeling of Power”. I agree with Nietzsche’s ideas on power written about in “On the Doctrine of the Feeling of Power”. I agree with Nietzsche’s philosophy on power: to benefit or to hurt others is a way to exercises one’s power.
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Tragedy :From the View of Aristotle and Nietzsche Tragedy itself has a sense on ordinary mind that easily defines it roughly as imitation of an action on the stage.Today it is going to be discussed two philosphers ‘‚Aristotle and Nietzsche‚ views about tragedy while understanding their philosophy about life itself. To start with what is tragedy for Aristotle and Nietzsche should be the first question that has to be understood to shine a light on whole discussion.For Aristotle‚ tragedy
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disregarding the other ways it has been interpreted. Moreover‚ typology as a philosophical area of research has not received sufficient attention in Nietzsche interpretations although there are many commentaries on the overman and Zarathustra. Before presenting Zarathustra as a type‚ I will briefly discuss the questions of type and typology in Nietzsche‚ bring up other types from his works and suggest possible ways of reading his typology. I Typology is not only a study of types2 which embody certain
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Existentialism The term existentialism has been applied to the human subject in all aspects of the individual. Through the ideas of existentialism‚ philosophers have looked at the existence of the human being. An existential attitude of the world is one of confusion and belief in a meaningless world. The beliefs of existentialism came about as a complete change from the beliefs of periods like the Romantic period. This philosophical view of life came about in the 19th century. These ideas
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the will to assume responsibility for oneself.” (Nietzsche. Twilight of the Idols. Trans. Hollingdale. Sect. 38). Everyone desires freedom but everyone cannot handle the responsibilities of freedom. I will compare J.S. Mill’s views on the social function of freedom with that of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s characters from both‚ the novel Notes From Underground and the excerpt; The Grand Inquisitor‚ also drawing supplementary arguments from Friedrich Nietzsche‚ while expressing my views alongside. Mill’s core
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Ecce Homo by Nietzsche is ironically a reflection of himself. It is extremely sarcastic and is a reflection of himself as a writer and philosopher in a self-deprecatory manner . The book is as though he is putting his life on trial to which the title alludes. The words "ecce homo" (behold‚ the man) were proclaimed by Pontius Pilate in the New Testament of the Bible when he gave up Jesus to the Jews to have them do what they liked with him. Likewise Nietzsche is giving himself up to his readers and
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has brought transparency to our senses. The soul‚ also known as the subject‚ has been questioned and attempted to be defined by German philosopher‚ Friedrich Nietzsche‚ in his 1887 work entitled “On the Genealogy of Morality.” The heart of the problems Nietzsche pursues lie within each subjects’ understanding of their origin of thought. Nietzsche examines the origins of Western morality and begins his analysis of what good and evil can come from our definitions of “good” and “evil”‚ themselves. Nietzsche’s
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Although Nietzsche isn’t responsible for creating modernism‚ his philosophies were representative of the concerns and uncertainly of the modernist artists. Nietzsche and the modernists shared a dark outlook on society‚ one that he had called in his works "sick" and weak due to the constraints put upon them by the Christian church‚ and traditional values that had gone unquestioned for too long. To truly realize oneself‚ you must break free‚ denounce this imposed morality and search deep inside to
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The "Will to Power" Nietzsche believed the will to power to be the fundamental causal power in the world‚ the driving force of all natural phenomena and the dynamic to which all other causal powers could be reduced. I believe Nietzsche in part hoped the will to power could be a theory of everything‚ providing the ultimate foundations for explanations of everything from whole societies‚ to individual organisms‚ down to simple lumps of matter. The will to power cannot be known. It must be understood
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