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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche. By Dennis Burns. Interesting Childhood Information. Born on 10/15/1844 in Röcken bei Lützen Named after Prussian king Suffered from migraines Father, uncles, and grandfathers are Lutheran Ministers His father and brother died around when Freidrich was five

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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  1. Friedrich Nietzsche By Dennis Burns

  2. Interesting Childhood Information • Born on 10/15/1844 in RöckenbeiLützen • Named after Prussian king • Suffered from migraines • Father, uncles, and grandfathers are Lutheran Ministers • His father and brother died around when Freidrich was five • Attended University of Bonn to study theology and philology

  3. Cont’d • Schopenhauer introduced him to atheism • Played music and was forced to join the military • Resigned as professor at Basel due to deteriorating health • Moved constantly from 1880-1889 • In 1889 Nietzsche lost sanity forever • around the same time of his brothers death • Saw a horse being whipped? • Various assumptions: syphilis, inherited disease? • Died on 8/25/1900 at the Villa Silberblick

  4. Major Ideas • “God is Dead” • Men no longer need God • Stop faith/dogma • Deception of life’s meaning • Creation of “Superman” • Superman: • Embrace life • Reject values • Amor Fati: • Fears despair, pessimism, and chaos • You must accept meaninglessness

  5. Cont’d • Eternal Recurrence: • Would you be happy to know that you were reliving the exact same life for an eternity? • Thought experiment; not a truth • Change your life, or love it • Truth: • No truth, only perspective • Does our view of the world matter? • Language is important to describe our perspective

  6. Cont’d • The Will to Power • Subjective or objective interpretation • Either he believes that our experiences are beyond the physical • Or he wants people to think about this concept • Paternal image of women and slaves

  7. People He Influenced • Critic amongst lemmings • Not as influential to English speakers • Like many prophets, not accepted in his time • Poorly translated • Sigmund Freud: • Seek explanation for accepted beliefs • Look into animal instincts • French philosophical circles: • Motivators of power = critique establishment

  8. Cont’d • Hitler and Mussolini: • Sister encourages them to select certain writings that were interpreted to support war and domination • Misinterpretation • Affected people in a wide spectrum: • From dancers to historians: • Example: Albert Camus: The Stranger • “I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.”

  9. Relativity in a Time of Change • Political reorganization • Thought Democracy kept extreme thinkers down • Unification in Germany and Italy • “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” • Nationalism, socialism, and liberalism in Europe • Russia frees the serfs • “Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit” • Free Thinker: admired uniquely Strong people

  10. Cont’d • Decline in religion • Darwin’s discoveries in evolution • Marx says it’s the Opium of the masses • Writing centered around religion • Grew up in a Lutheran family • Traditional in views • Distrusted modern establishments • Should be life enhancing; reguardless of truth • Inspired • “Faith: not wanting to know what is true.” • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5kxybJv22I

  11. Cont’d • Various Russian Wars: • Russo-Swedish war (take Finland) • Russo-Turkish war (take Bessarabia) • Russia invaded by Napolean • Crimean War • Russo-Persian war (take Armenia) • Nietzsche fears stifling individuals through singular authority

  12. Symbolization (without being too repetitive) • Misunderstood: vegetarianism, anarchism, Nazism, and cultism • Nihilism: accept the fate that there is merely a world and interpretations of it are false • Eternal Recurrence: would you be happy living your life for eternity? • Amor Fati: be happy with a nihilist conclusion • Ubermensch: People that think outside the box will progress society

  13. The End… • Until I present again in the next stage of the Eternal Recurrence

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