Anticrist Summery Nietzsche’s readers Nietzsche claimed in the Foreword to have written the book for a very limited readership. In order to understand the book‚ he asserted that the reader "... must be honest in intellectual matters to the point of hardness to so much as endure my seriousness‚ my passion." The reader should be above politics and nationalism. Also‚ the usefulness or harmfulness of truth should not be a concern. Characteristics such as "Strength which prefers questions for
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Paul Tillich makes a claim in his writing “What is Faith?” that says that a core part of faith is it being a core part of you as a human. In his second section he says‚ “This leads to the question of how faith as a personal‚ centered act is related to the rational structure of one’s personality which is manifest in his meaningful language‚ in his ability to know the true and to do the good‚ in his sense of beauty and justice. All this‚ and not only his possibility to analyze‚ to calculate and to
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Nietzsche also believed that people should not be a Christian. He believed that in being Christian‚ we were negating ourselves of the real elements needed as humans to attain fulfillment‚ such as sex‚ intellect‚ and creativity. He likened Christians to timid slaves who lacked the strength to get hold of what they sought after and instead adhered to the ideals that made a virtue of their spinelessness. Nietzsche believed that faith was the will to avoid knowing what is true. He believed that the
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Italian Fascists‚ partly due to the encouragement of Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche through her associations with Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. It was possible for the Nazi interpreters to assemble‚ quite selectively‚ various passages from Nietzsche’s writings whose juxtaposition appeared to justify war‚ aggression and domination for the sake of nationalistic and racial self-glorification. Until the 1960s in France‚ Nietzsche appealed mainly to writers and artists‚ since the academic philosophical
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ourselves‚ the murderers of all murderers?” (Nietzsche‚ 1882‚ 1887‚ s. 125).This is one of many renowned and influential quotes devised by the prolific German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. A lover of Greek myths and a philologist by trade‚ Nietzsche expounded his controversial philosophy with an iron fist criticizing Platonism‚ Christianity and other popular forms of thought as anesthetising and suppressing the instinctual‚ impulsive energies of man. Nietzsche was the original non-conformist and true
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might be asking. However‚ if one were to take a direct German translation of Übermensch‚ the definitions that would come up would include‚ Superman‚ Overman‚ Overhuman and Above-Human. If we closely exam the criteria to become the Übermensch as Nietzsche has laid out for us through Thus Spoke Zarathustra and the modern day fictional Superman‚ there are such strong parallels between the two that I can firmly say that Superman is the Übermensch. In order to convey that Superman is the Übermensch‚ we
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that Dostoyevsky‚ growing “underground” ideas in his characters‚ but not completing them still tried to “grasp” onto Russian orthodoxy‚ while the other – praised the man: “Just as Nietzsche […] Dostoyevsky considers the last gift of freedom to be the man-god‚ the antichrist‚ with the difference in the two being that Nietzsche blesses this gift‚ and Dostoyevsky curses it” (Merezhkovskii‚ 217 – 218). By the thoughts of Berdyaev‚ if before “Notes from Underground” Dostoyevsky was no more than a: humanist
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thinkers around the world to question life’s meaning‚ one’s purpose‚ and how professed divine figures could allow such extreme suffering. A growing number of people reached the same conclusion existentialist that Friedrich Nietzsche had several decades earlier. God is dead. Nietzsche extrapolated that the universe is indifferent to human agony and that life is meaningless. Kierkegaard further evolved this thought‚ arguing one could provide meaning to his or her life through his or her decisions. In the
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au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/pessimism/chapter1.html 6 Kierkegaard. "Chapter 3. Teleological Suspension of the Ethical." ( HYPERLINK "http://www.religion-online.org/showbook.asp?title=2068" http://www.religion-online.org/showbook.asp?title=2068 7 Nietzsche. Antichrist. ( HYPERLINK "http://www.fns.org.uk/ac.htm" http://www.fns.org.uk/ac.htm) 8 Camus. "An Absurd Reasoning." ( HYPERLINK "http://www.onelifellc.com/AN%20ABSURD%20REASONING.doc" http://www.onelifellc.com/AN%20ABSURD%20REASONING.doc) Jean Paul
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Chapter 16: Soren Kierkegaard’s Repetition Brief Biography * Soren Kierkegaard was born on May 15‚ 1813 in Copenhagen‚ Denmark. * 7th child of a wealthy businessman. * His father had special philosophical interests which had great impact on him * He was also a bright student who learned to read Hebrew‚ Greek‚Latin‚German and French at the age of 17. * His philosophy‚ which he called existentialism‚ practically applied to an examined life as opposed to the works of Georg Wilhelm
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