Friedrich Nietzsche

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 “I am a forest, and a
night of dark trees: but
he who is not afraid of
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my darkness, will find

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banks full of roses under

my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus
Spoke Zarathustra
 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

- was a German philosopher of the late

19th century who challenged the
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foundations of Christianity and

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traditional morality. He was interested in

about
the enhancement of individual and
cultural health, and believed in life,
creativity, power, and down-to-earth
realities. He was widely known for his
ideas like death of God, perspectivism,
the Übermensch, the eternal recurrence,
and the will to power.
 Nietzsche’s Life and Works
• born on October 15, 1844, in Röcken
bei Lützen, Germany
• July 30,1849 -his father died
• January 4,1850- his brother died
• 1858-attended a first-rate boarding

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• 1864-entered the University of Bonn
• May 1869- began teaching at the
University of Basel
• January 1872, The Birth of Tragedy
• 1878, Human, All-Too-Human
• June, 1879, he resigned from his post
at Basel
• March 1890, his mother took him back
home to Naumburg.
• 1897,his mother died.
• August 25, 1900, Nietzsche died.
 Notable Published Books
Nietzsche Writings comprise of 26 Published
and Numerous Non-Published Books and Essays
Notable Published Books!
philosophies

• Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883)

history
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• Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
• The Antichrist (1895)
• On Genealogy of Morality (1897)
• The Birth of Tragedy (1872)
• Human, All too Human (1878)
• Twilight of the Idols (1889)
• The Gay Science (1882)
• The Will to Power (1901)
• The Case of Wagner (1888)
 Nietzsche’s Famous Philosophies

Master Morality
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Vs. Will to Power
Recurrence

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Slave Morality

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Nihilism Ubermensch
(God is Dead) (Overman/
Superman)
 Master Morality vs. Slave Morality

• Nietzsche defined two types of Morality

• Master Morality and Slave Morality

• “Good and Bad Consequences” vs. “Good and Evil

Intentions”

• Nietzsche as a Moral Skeptic

-“There are no moral phenomena at all, only moral
interpretations of phenomena”
 Master Morality vs. Slave Morality

• Traits of Master Morality

-Courage
- Power
-Honor
-Nobility

• Goodness in Master Morality

-“Things are not good in themselves rather they are good because they are
approved by or desired by the master”

• Badness in Master Morality

-“Badness is not related to what something is but rather with what something
isn't”
 Master Morality vs. Slave Morality
• Traits of Slave Morality
-Humility
-Obedience
-Weakness

• Goodness in Slave Morality

-“A slave views Master as “Evil”. Goodness is the opposite of Evil. So
if Master is evil, I must be good”

• Badness in Master Morality

-“Traits of Master Morality”
 Master Morality vs. Slave Morality

“You have your way, I have my way. As for the right way,

the correct way, and the only way,

it does not exist”

- Friedrich Nietzsche
 Nihilism (God is Dead)
• A misunderstood concept of Nietzsche
• God is not Dead, yet He is!
• We have murdered God! God is dead.
God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we
comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was
holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has
bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us?
What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of
atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not
the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves
not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?
- The Gay Science (Section 125)
 Nihilism (God is Dead)
• Concept of God exists in the mind of Believers, so Believers are
responsible for Life and Death of God!

• Faith : Belief in something there is no physical proof of!

• Our unethical and corrupt actions murdered God!

• “Either we died because of our religion or our religion dies because of

us”
• “God has lost whatever function he once had because of the actions
taken by those who believe in him.” - Welshon 40
 Will to Power

• The main driving force behind Human Ambition

• Charles Darwin – Theory of Evolution
• Nietzsche believed there was a higher purpose to Human
Existence
• “Why do we Live?” Not for mere survival, but to expand,
conquer, grow and gain energy which motivates us to live!
• “Power” – not material wealth but rather a way to grasp more
out of life.
“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the
minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they
cease to be mind.”
 Will to Power
“Meaning and morality of One's life come from within
oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by
experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of an
infinite number of possibilities and the healthy person
explores as many of them as posible. Religions that teach
pity, self-contempt, humility, self-restraint and guilt are
incorrect. The good life is ever changing, challenging,
devoid of regret, intense, creative and risky.”
 Ubermensch (Overman / Superman)

• Three stages of Man – Animal , Human , God

• A man can either sink to “animal” or rise above and overcome himself to become
“God”
• Will of Power vs. Will of Preservation!
• Using Nihilism to Discover Thyself!
• Overcoming pity, self defeatism and Slave Psychology

“You must be ready to burn yourself in your own

flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first
become ashes?”
 Eternal Recurrence
• The Concept of Time – Linear vs. Cyclic View

• Linear View – Progress (Technological Development)

• Cyclic View – Time is Cyclic and it repeats itself!

• How to Overcome the Horror of Life?

• We are small part of a large system.

• How do we become immortal? How do we achieve eternity?

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing

star.”
Legacy and Influence

Nietzsche is regarded as a major influence on 20th century philosophy,

theology and art. His ideas on individuality, morality and the meaning of
existence contributed to the thinking of philosophers Martin Heidegger,
Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault; Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud,
two of the founding figures of psychiatry; and writers such as Albert
Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse.
Nietzsche was able to write so prolifically and
profoundly for years, while remaining in a
condition of ill-health and often intense
physical pain, is a testament to his
spectacular mental capacities and willpower.
Lesser people under the same physical
pressures might not have had the inclination
to pick up a pen, let alone think and record
thoughts which—created in the midst of
striving for healthy self-overcoming—would
have the power to influence an entire
century.
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