Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a Prussian writer and philosopher whose work affected many 20th century philosophers, artists, and scholars. Thanks to creative editing of his work after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche is sometimes thought of as an anti-Semitic misogynist, though this is not actually true. Friedrich Nietzsche’s work was bold, daring, and challenging to the reader, questioning the society around him and the rules that people lived by. Nietzsche is considered one of the fore guard of the existential philosophers. Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Saxony in 1844 to Lutheran parents. His father passed away five years later, and Nietzsche was largely raised by his female relatives, who sent him to boarding school and later to university, first at Bonn and then Leipzig. At university, Nietzsche studied classical literature and linguistics. He first began to distinguish himself after university, when he took a teaching position at Basel, which he held until 1879. In 1872, Nie
Friedrich Nietzsche (1944 – 1900) was a German philosopher who challenged the foundations of Christianity and traditional morality. Central to his philosophy is questioning all ideas and dogmas that are not “life-affirming”, however much they may be part of the social fabric. His writings are believed to have strongly influenced Adolph Hitler. 1. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. 2. Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. 3. All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. 4. Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot or a bad apple is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t. 5. At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. 6. Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. 7. Extreme positions are not succeeded by modera
