Nietzsche

Megan “Naomi” LeBoeuf

Fritz
 “The Little Minister”
 Musically Inclined
 Sickly
 Elisabeth
 Friends
Education
 Elementary School
 Dom Gymnasium
 Pforta
 Bonn University
 Leipzig University
Career
 Military
 Artillery Division
(Berlin, 1867)
 Medical Orderly
(Alsace-Lorraine, 1870)
 Professor at Basel
University
Life
 Wagner
 Popularity
 (Or Lack Thereof)

 Love Life
 (Or Lack Thereof)
NIETZSCHE
WAS NO
NOTA
T
NAZI!!!
Final Days
 Collapsed
 Insanity
 Syphilis?
 Death
Nietzsche’s
Philosophy
 Apollo vs. Dionysus
 Art as a form of  Art as an experience
monument
 Focus on the present
 Reverence of the past
 Emotion
 Rationality and logic
 Chaos and freedom
 Order
 Master vs. Slave
Morality
 Focus on the individual  Focus on the group
 Strength  Generosity
 Willpower  Pity
 Concern for others only  Concern for others is of
where it is self-serving prime importance
 Morality of the strong  Morality of those unable to
defend themselves against
the strong
 God is a thought
Religion and Faith who makes crooked Faith: not
wanting to
Is man one of God's all that is straight.
know what is
blunders? Or is God true.
one of man's
blunders?

Do you want to strive for

peace of mind and
happiness? Then believe.
Do you want to be a
devotee of truth? Then
seek.

A casual stroll
through the lunatic
asylum shows that
faith does not prove
anything.
There is not enough
love and goodness in
the world to permit
giving any of it away
to imaginary beings.
Nietzsche’s Problems with Christianity

 Dismissal of life as “No Good”

 Idea of Original Sin
 Idealization of Slave Morality
 Emphasizes and encourages
weakness
 Christian God is no longer
believable Only real Christian
that ever existed.
 Only the weak require
slave morality such as
Master morality Christianity offers!
is for the strong!

Man should aspire

to be the
Übermensch!

The sick are best

qualified to judge
the healthy!
Ad Hominem Attacks
Socrates was
wrong, plus he
was ugly!

Hegel was wrong,

plus he was an
idiot!

Schopenhauer was
wrong, plus he was a
coward!
A philosopher
Wagner’s music is should be the
bad, plus he’s a embodiment of
jerk! his philosophy!
Justifying Contradictions
It is hard enough to
remember my opinions,
There are no without also remembering
facts, only my reasons for them!
interpretations.

The irrationality of a
thing is no argument
against its existence,
rather a condition of it.

There are no
eternal facts, as
there are no
absolute truths.
 Miscellaneous Nietzsche

 Amor Fati
 Eternal Recurrance
 Perspectivism
 Moral Psychology
Understanding Nietzsche

Nietzsche wanted us:

Not to understand…
…but to react.

Philosophers of the Future!

 Works Cited
Hayman, Ronald. Nietzsche: A Critical Life. New York: Oxford University Press,
1980.

Kaufmann, Walter. The Portable Nietzsche. New York: Penguin Books, 1954.

Mencken, Henry Louis. The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. Boston: Colonial

Press, 1908.

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Also Sprach Zarathustra. Stuttgart: Kröner, 1939.

Solomon, Robert C. and Kathleen M. Higgins. What Nietzsche Really Said.

New York: Schocken Books, 2000.