I want to start off by saying that Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the more complicated philosophers that I ever had pleasure of studying. What I took away from Friedrich Nietzsche opinions on the death of God is that he was referring to the declining belief and respect for God or religion in general. Nietzsche felt that with the loss of religion the west would lose its distinctive cultural identity. Friedrich Nietzsche was not a big fan of Christianity to say the least, but he still understood its importance and its benefits to the culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, in my humble opinion had a strange outlook on morality.…
Values/pg. 12: The standards by which people define what is desirable or undesirable, good or bad, beautiful or ugly. Everyone has values at one time or another. Values change depending on want goes on in our lives.…
However, Zizek cautions that this thing isn’t simply a set of values, rather it is a kind of divine conviction. People believe in it, the way they believe in the Holy Spirit. Nations and races are in constant conflict because of their false beliefs ‘every nationality has built its own mythology narrating how other nations deprive it of the vital part of enjoyment the possession of which would allow it to live fully’ (107). Nations accuse each other of the theft of their enjoyment but the ironic fact is that they never possess what they perceive has been stolen from them. It is actually a fear of the theft of fantasy.…
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s book On the Genealogy of Morals covers three different themes in its text. The first topic is morality. The second topic is punishment. The third topic is power. Based off of these topics there are different arguments that stem from them.…
How Siddhartha is going through Nietzsche's Three Metamorphoses For many years intellects from around the world have wondered what the key to true enlightenment is. They have wondered how people can balance their physical and spiritual life, and lead a moral, and satisfying life. With his 1922 novel, Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse addresses these concerns, and through narrating the story of the young prince, tries to answer to these wonders. On a journey of multiple lessons, Siddhartha experiences rebirth, and enlightenment. Moreso, these rebirths Siddhartha undergoes are a representation of the young Brahmin going through the Three Metamorphoses that are seen in Nietzsche’s…
Question 3) In the first essay of On the Genealogy of Morality, Nietzsche’s central concern is the slave revolt in morality. In this paper, I argue that Nietzsche does not think Marx an example of the slave revolt in morality as Nietzsche’s view of the slave class is different to Marx’s view of the proletarians as well as their differing suggestions in terms of imaginary revenge and physical revolution. To begin with, Nietzsche explains in the first essay that master morality is one associated with the noble who are “the mighty, the high-placed and the high-minded” (Nietzsche, 11).…
Values are a person’s defined preferences and beliefs that distinguish what is important and unimportant. They are established over the course of someone’s life and may come from our parents,…
Nietzsche makes an important distinction between the words “evil” and bad” even though they are both considered the opposite of “good.” He says that it is the individual views of the common man and the noble man that created these different concepts. The word “bad” originated from the nobles, and the word “evil” came from the ressentiment of the common people. Another important reason that these two words have different meanings is because the nobles and the common people do not share the same concept of “good.” To a person of ressentiment, whatever is good to a noble man is evil.…
Nietzsche wanted to eradicate modernity and replace it with a fresh kind of culture and society that would “create stronger and more fully-developed individuals” (Kellner). Nietzsche spoke of people that fell short of such originality as ‘herd animals’, “moderns... [who] possess nothing which is truly ours” (Nietzsche, 1886). In addition, he critiqued modernity for inhibiting the creation of liberated, more contented, and individuals of good health. Referring to the modern culture as “barbaric” (Nietzsche, 1887), he suggested that a higher form of culture could be obtained through free spirited individuality and the process of self-overcoming.…
The author Friedrich Nietzsche in his text (“The Madman”, 1882) used a narrative to prove a point. To be more specific he wanted to show or demonstrate to people how bad was the status of religion and of faith in Europe around his time (1882-1887) the time when he was publishing “The Gay Science”. The story started with a man who is described as a “madman”. The madman begins by entering a marketplace and starts to shout loudly “I seek God! I seek God!”…
This essay will argue that values play an important role in shaping…
Throughout life people have many different experiences that help shape who they are and what they believe in. Sometimes, culture, religion, gender, age, and many other things can influence certain values. Even some influences may be the same, everyone develops their values differently and that is what makes us individuals. Personally, my values evolved more through my experiences but my mother laid the framework for them. The values that are most important to me are, respect, honesty, empathy and equality.…
Fredrich Nietzsche’s father was a Lutheran pastor. However, Nietzsche’s father only lived until Nietzsche was five. After his father died, Nietzsche’s brother only lived for six more months and died at the age of two. Nietzsche attended boarding school and university in the hopes of becoming a minister like his father was. Although, after one semester at university of studying theology, Nietzsche had a crisis of faith.…
The periscope of interest for this paper is Friedrich Nietzsche’s article, “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense.” Nietzsche was categorized as a post-modern philosopher who, through his works, had a tremendous influence on Western philosophy. The particular piece of writing discussed here deals with the relationship that human language has on the formation of truths and lies. The meaning behind the text, if true, essentially makes us rethink everything we think we know. “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense” is Nietzsche’s explanation of how and why humans have created their own perceptions of truths and lies.…
In his essay Genealogy of Morality, Nietzsche suggests that there are two types of morality: master morality and slave morality. Slave morality values virtues like humility, sympathy and kindness. Slave morality sees opposite with noble man, who conceives ‘good’ in advance and spontaneity: the ‘bad’ and ‘evil’ originates from noble man arising out of insatiable hatred. This is the essential act of conception of slave morality (Friedrich Nietzsche sec. 11).…