FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

(2ND PPT)
 WORKS AND WRITINGS

 Niezsche ‘s main work among which are DAYBREAK

(1881). The Dawn of Day/ Daybreak: Thoughts on the
Prejudices of Morality is an 1881 book by the German
philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The Nietzsche scholar
Keith Ansell-Pearson writes that Dawn is the least studied of
all of Nietzsche's works.
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 The Gay SCIENCE (1882/1887) and on the
Genealogy of Morals

 THE SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (1883 -1885) was

his one of the famous writings
 FIRST PERIOD
 His work is categorized in three periods

 The early works the birth of tragedy and the

ultimate mediations are dominated by a
romantic perspective.
 SECOND PERIOD
 The middle period from HUMAN ALL TO
HUMAN upto TH E GAY SCIENCE, reflects
the tradition of french aphoritsts

 It extols reason and science , experiments with

litrary genres and expressions
 THIRD PERIOD
 In his mature writing he was preoccupied by
orign and function of value in human life

 He believed life neither posses or lacs intrinsic

value and yet being evaluated, such evaluation
scan be read as symptoms of the condition of
the evaluator
 INTRESTS
 He was also interested in a probing analysis
and evaluation of fundamental cultural values
of westren philosphy , relegion and morality
 ASCETIC IDEAL

 He also characterized the expression of ascetic

ideal

 Ascetic ideal is born when suffering becomes

endowed with ultimate significance
 TRADITONAL PHILOSOPHY

 Traditional philosophy expressed the ascetic

ideal when it privileged soul over body , mind
over senses , duty over desires , reality over
appearance
 CRITIQUES
 Neitzches critique of traditional morality
centered on the typology of master and slaves
by examining the etymology of German words

 FOR EXAMPLE
GUT ( GOOD), SCHLECT( BAD) , BOSE ( EVIL)
 PERSPECTIVISM
 He was of the view of perspectivism

 According to this view that perception ,

experiences and reason change according to the
viewer ‘s relative perspective
CONCEPT OF WILL TO POWER
 He often identifies life itself with a will to
power

 The WILL TO POWER is a prominent concept

of philosophy of friedrich nietzche it describes
that there is a main driving force in humans .
Different schools advocate different essential
driving force
 INFLUENCES
 Martin Buber, Judaism’s greatest 20th century
thinker counted neitzche’s among 3 most
important influences of his life

 Many philosophers like Max scheler, Karl

Jaspers, Martin Heidegger were influenced by
him
 The Birth of Tragedy
On the Pathos of Truth
Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
Untimely Meditations
 Human, All Too Human
 The Dawn of Day
 Idylls from Messina
 The Gay Science
 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
 Beyond Good and Evil
 On the Genealogy of
 Morality
 The Case of Wagner
 Twilight of the Idols
 The Antichrist
 The Will to Power (posthumous)