Your existence is special, so you should be grateful for what you already have in life. If you put your mind to something, you will be able to overcome any obstacle. Keep fighting until you cannot fight any longer. Elie Wiesel has demonstrated these characteristics in his novel, “Night.” He has fought through many tough times and experiences when he was in the Holocaust.
Fredrick Nietzsche was a late nineteenth century German philosopher. Nietzsche’s philosophy claimed that a small portion of humans exist who are more advanced than all others are called Uberman, and in order to advance the human population into a superior state of thinking and physical achievements, all resources must go to the Uberman. Nietzsche argued that human advancement was stagnant and for humans to becoming a more advanced race, these Uberman must repopulate and not the average person. With the aim of human progression in mind, Nietzsche proposed that humanity needs to find every Uberman and devote all resources towards them with little contribution towards the betterment of average person. An Uberman is a human that is far more capable
To fully appreciate the sufferings and pains a person needs to overcome to achieve uberperson Nietzsche writes, “Of the three metamorphoses of the spirit I tell you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.” (Nietzsche, On the Three Metamorphoses, 25). This paper will examine the three distinct changes that a person must undertake, the differences of each stage and explain why the person needs each while attempting to achieve for the mantle of uberperson. The first metamorphoses’ requirements Nietzsche lists show what the camel must overcome.
My analysis will go around the topic of Nietzsche’s Thus spoke Zarathustra most popular book that talks about the three metamorphoses of the spirit. First of all, I will separate each metamorphosis in a different paragraph. After, I will focus on the point of sum up the same way that Nietzsche describes his three metamorphoses of the spirit. Second, I will concentrate more on the explanation of the pacific signification of each metamorphosis that are camel, lion and child.
In the book “Beyond Good and Evil” Nietzsche mentions that true philosophers are the “bad conscience of their age”, by this he means that philosophers are called to a task to show their inequality of time. The task he tries to show what philosophers are, is the task of enhancing a society that deals with time. Nietzsche mentions in section 212 of the book “So far all these extraordinary patrons of humanity who are called philosophers have found their task, their harsh, unwanted, undeniable task lay in being the bad conscience of their age.” (Nietzsche,106). What Nietzsche is trying to say in this quote is that philosophers find their tasks by looking back at the morals they have used in their past to predict their future.
Nietzsche was influenced by Greek philosophers. His philosophical work is the foundation for existentialism and expressionism. Nietzsche believes that a man is responsible for his own growth and change and always looking for answers for unanswerable questions. Nietzsche’s philosophical text Beyond Good and Evil consists of nine different chapters and each chapter presents a distinctive point of view. In Nietzsche view, every philosopher put forward their personal view in a philosophical way.
Kierkegaard’s idea is sometimes hard to pin down, maybe because of the fact he had written with the use of symbolic pseudonyms who conveyed differing contrasting points of view and mainly because the dialectic procedure he included is inherently vital and ever-changing. Kierkegaard argued that involvement in faith is ought to be in the tremor of existential fear and unsteadiness. There are many generalizations and overwhelming judgments made about Nietzsche and his notions. For me, there is only one way to understand Nietzsche, what I do is to read each paragraph and saying and dictum attentively and cautiously and arrive at my own ending after seeing how his words apply to my own life. In Human all too human, the works of Nietzsche such
The way that such intricate, specific, and divergent books and life events relate is quite showing that the choices we make do affect others and ourselves, our passions define us in positive and negative ways, and being alone in an indifferent world makes us more aware in the end. Hardship and toil prove themselves to be worth it because for Marjane, Meursault, and myself, the results of our hard work with teach us more strength and independence than before. Existentialism exists more than we can see, and its philosophy promotes learning from
Socrates makes the claim that “no harm can befall a good person in this life or the next” (Socrates). When he makes this claim he further explains that bad things cannot happen to good people. If he is a good person in life, then he will go to Heaven and will be at a certain gain in the afterlife. If he has faith in the gods, then no harm will come to him. The readings, “Beyond Good and Evil” and “The Birth of Tragedy” are written by Friedrich Nietzsche, and have diverse way of speaking of God then Blaise Pascal does in his works of Pensees.
Nietzsche was a German Philosopher who wrote a book called Twilight of the Idols. I will be taking some of his main points from his story and giving my standpoint on them. In my paper I will be explaining Nietzsche's morality as an anti-nature and his four great errors of human nature. The four great errors include confusing cause and consequence, false causality, imaginary causes, and free will. Nietzsche believed that philosophy should be about jumping from one extreme to another extreme and that it should make you angry and ask questions.
To German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, the concept of free will is of relevance just as it is to all other existentialist philosophers alike. In understanding Nietzsche’s account against free will, it is of utmost importance to first be aware of his theory on human nature in general as the two are interconnected. For a strong believer in free will, Nietzsche’s philosophy might simply be regarded as the ‘other’ or the opposite view, that is, a determinist view on human nature. Nietzsche’s philosophy, however, is not necessarily deterministic per se and it is wrong to label him as such since he goes beyond the belief that all our actions are pre-determined. For the purposes of this paper, the focus will be on Nietzsche’s view on what free
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, essayist, and cultural critic. Before he started to been philosophize, he started his vocation as a classical philologist. Friedrich Nietzsche was born on 15 October 1844 and passed away on 25 August 1990 at age 55. Nietzsche 's body of work is related extensively on art, philology, history, religion, tragedy, culture and also science.
The Concept of God in the Philosophy of Nietzsche Introduction Nietzsche is well known as the proclaimer of the death of God. Yet there are passages in a number of his writings in which the concept of God is treated very differently. In these he does not use the word ‘God’ as label for the belief of traditional religion, but instead uses it as a symbolic key for some of his own most profound philosophical thoughts. I shall argue here that one of its uses is a symbol for the highest form of the will to power. I will attempt to show that analysis of this concept of God reveals Nietzsche’s conception of the highest will to power to be quite different from the familiar interpretation of this theme.
In the end of Goethe’s book Faust, Faust is redeemed and not sent to hell even though he did some pretty bad things. Some of these bad things include taking advantage of a girl named Margaret, who was only 14. He made her accidentally kill her own mother so he could sneak in and fulfil his lustful desires, killed Valentine, her brother when he found out, and ran away to go party. But even after all of this he doesn't go to hell, shouldn't bad people, who did bad things go to hell?
"If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed!" Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is one of humanity's most influential and amaranthine thinkers. He was a German philosopher, political critic, philologist, writer, and poet. Some of his most famous works include Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1891), Beyond Good and Evil (1886), The Gay Science (1882), The Birth of Tragedy (1872), Twilight of the Idols (1889), The Will to Power (1901), etc. His impact isn't just on recently found scholarly insight, but additionally on the way numerous contemporary Western philosophers approach "life".
