Nietzsche Research Paper

Friedrich Nietzsche lived from 1844 to 1900, his father was a Lutheran pastor and the death of his father was hard on Nietzsche. He showed brilliants early on and “studied theology at the University of Bonn and philology at Leipzig, becoming an atheist in the process” (1041). Nietzsche’s philosophy is like the Joker from Batman 2, when the Joker burned the money he stole and killing those who helped him with the robbery. For Nietzsche the power does not come from normal sources but from unconventional sources and this is what he call’s “Europe life. “ Thoughts on the meaning of life: Who is his am? He is. Nietzsche is anti-nationalism of Germany, and also cuts to the heart of Hagel, “there is a final aim, and that this has actually been

In plain English: we are never understood-hence our authority” (1051). Nietzsche is saying that it is not that he has any inferiority in his thinking, He has authority over you because of his thinking. He has raised himself above rank and file. You are weak and that is why you do not understand and accept his positions. “The disappointed man speaks:-I sought for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideal” (1052). This is a poke at the weak or even of the religious, speaking of their small-minded ideologies. The problem of Socrates: Nietzsche has a problem with Socrates, in that Socrates believes that reason alone can provide people with happiness. Nietzsche begins by depicting Socrates as an ugly criminal, and even accepted the complement in one of his writings. Nietzsche then states, “he seemed to be a doctor, a Saviour. Is it necessary to expose the errors which lay in his faith in reason at any price…To be obliged to fight the instincts-this is the formula of degeneration: as long as life is in the ascending line, happiness is the same as instinct” (1055). For Nietzsche, Socrates and Christianity “was just a misunderstanding” (1055). He sees that “Socrates wished to die.” And “not Athens,” but to show that “Socrates himself has only been ill a long while”. (1055). Because of Socrates ideas and weak minded thinking,

This is an attack on Christian thinkers, as well as on Socrates and Kant. “With a feeling of great reverence I except the name of Heraclitus” (1055). He likes Heraclitus because he takes the opposite stance Socrates, “Reason is the cause of our falsifying the evidence of the sences. In so far as the senses show us a state of Becoming, of transiency, and of change, they do not lie. But in declaring that Being was an empty illusion, Heraclitus will remain eternally right. The ‘apparent’ world is the only world: the ‘true world’ is no more than a false adjunct thereto” (1055). He does give four positions where he is giving why reason causes problems with the real world. The reality of the world, human beings and how they try to pecieve the world even Christians and Kant create a different world. For Nietzsche, the world is Dionysian. “He says Yea to everything questionable and terrible, he is Dionysian” (1057). How the “true World” ultimately became a Fable: He blames Plato and Christianity for creating a false world. Mankind has “suppressed the true world” (1057). Morality as the enemy of Nature: This is Nietzsche attacking Christianity and gives the Sermon on the Mount as an example. He looks at Christianity as a lie and that they are suppressing the truth. “The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity” (1058). He does