A Dummys Guide to

Friedrich
Nietzsche
Submitted by:
REYNALDO, Joshua Jake Z.
 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
(15th of October, 1844 25th of August, 1900, 55 years of age)

- Born in Rocken, Germany.

- Studied philology at the universities of Bonn and Leipzig
- Born during a time of rising German Nationalism
- The youngest ever to hold the Chair of Classical
Philology at the University of Bassel.
- Works touched on art, philology, history, religion, culture,
and science.
- A German Philosopher with a profound influence on
western philosophy.

Friedrich
Nietzsche
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Nietzsche
 ~ Born during a time where modern science
national development was increasing.
~ Believes that Christianity provides people with
an antidote to a primal form of Nihilism.
~ Religion is playing a decreasing part in peoples
lives.
~ God is dead
~ Praises nihilism. However, he states that it
should be approached with caution.
~ Only when man truly overcomes nihilism will he
be able to truly thrive.
~ Wants to hasten nihilisms arrival to hasten its
departure.

Friedrich
Nietzsche
 ~ Power: a fundamental and psychological drive.
~ Power is realized in independence and dominance.
~ Stronger than the will to survive and to have sex.
~ Examples are martyrs and monks who forsake the
aforementioned wills in exchange for what they perceive to be a
greater power and cause.
~ Even though it can manifest through physical violence,
Nietzsche concerned himself with the sublimated will to power.
~ People turn themselves inward and master their own self
rather than others.
~ As everything is always in a state of fluctuation, will to power
drives these changes.
~ The universe is not made up of facts, but of wills. What we call
I is just the chaotic jumble of competing wills.
~ Any point of view that is fixed or objective is life denying. Only
change is constant

Friedrich
Nietzsche
 ~ Christianity is fundamentally opposed to life.
~ Concept of sin repels us from accepting our
instincts and sexuality.
~ Faith denounces curiosity and skepticism.
~ Pity encourages valuation and cherishment of
weakness.
~ The promise of an afterlife devalues the current
life in favor of the beyond.
~ Nietzsche argues that Christianity springs fron
resentment of life and seeks to overthrow health
and strength with its life denying ethic.
~ Christianity is the hated enemy of life.

Friedrich
Nietzsche
 He who has a why to l ive c an bear almost an y
how.

Friedrich
Nietzsche