Questions tagged [nietzsche]
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a German philosopher and poet. Nietzsche is consistently one of the most widely-read philosophers, even among laymen; yet his work is often elliptical, even cryptic, and demands an unusual discipline with respect to reading and thinking. This contradiction may give some sense of the complexity and profundity of Nietzsche's powerful writing and explosive style. Much of his work can be understood as critique of nihilism.
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Nietzsche on balancing service to the creation of (or becoming) the Overman and living a life of ones own choosing?
So, I have been looking into Nietzsche.
To be honest, I have thought a lot about Nietzsche for the past 2 years, and I am unsure of what to make of the nature of this need to become the Overman. My ...
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Hegelian dialectic to transcend Stoic vs Nietzsche?
I would like to apply Hegel's dialectic to the following thesis/antithesis and that you help me find sublimating synthesis ideas. Here is the thesis:
"to live a happy life, you must accept your ...
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Do Kierkegaard and Nietzsche have similar ideas about being and becoming?
I have not read much of Kierkegaard's philosophy, but this quote comes in mind when comparing his philosophy to Nietzsche's in terms of being and becoming:
“To be human, is not a fact, but a task.” ...
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What are some answers besides besides Mallarmé to Nietzsche's 'who is speaking?'
Nietzsche in what can be considered a critique of Cartesian reasoning at one point uses the identity of a flash with the lightning that 'produced it as a metaphor for famously saying that there's no ...
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Nietzsche's model of sociality in the ubermensch
As I understand it, Fredrich Nietzsche-- at least in the latest works he had scribed before his death-- was neither an advocate of antisocial nor prosocial passions. How he professes this position is ...
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Which philosophers have contradicted Nietzsche?
These days I'm becoming tired of the recurrent introduction of Friedrich Nietzsche as the epitome of the philosophical genius, the revolutionary whose ideas have never been as relevant as now and the ...
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Where is one's "power"?
Where is one's "power", in the Nitezschean sense?
Is it in the body?
Is it a phenomena of conscious: does it depend upon consciousness?
Is it a quale?
It is essentially ones own?
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The source of a Nietzsche quote
I remember Nietzsche wrote "it is OK to philosophize by just touching on subjects" instead of developing a systematic way. In which book was it? Or do I misremember the quote?
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When Russell refers to "the morality of slaves" in In Praise of Idleness is he referencing Nietzsche?
In Praise of Idleness features the line "The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery." It also later references "the morality of the Slave State". Is ...
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Why did Nietzsche say he would not live his life again?
Why did Nietzsche say he would not live his life again?
Kaufman Gay Science p. 19 introduction...
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notes... “I do not want life again. How did I endure it? ...
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Did Heidegger talk about malice at all?
Did Heidegger talk about malice at all?
I agree and find interesting if not useful most of Nietzsche's aphorisms but felt that his analysis of malice was just weak, and obviously so. However, I liked ...
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Do Nietzsche's values justify some actions?
Do Nietzsche's values justify some actions? I'm asking because if so then my entirely trivial, or at least unfocused, appropriation of his ideas can be easily made more elegant, or at least more ...
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Heidegger's origin of the work of art and Nietzsche's Dionysian vs. Apollonian forces in art
In "Origin of the Work of Art" ( der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes), Heidegger talks about a piece of art as something that is both world and earth. These two are in a constant battle, in which they drive ...
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How would Nietzsche argue against classical theism?
Completely out of curiosity, how would someone like Nietzsche, let's use him as an example, argue against Aquinas's metaphysical argument for classical theism. I can't seem to find any references in ...
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Is transvaluation supposed to be some sort of intuitive aesthetic judgment akin to moral ones
Is transvaluation supposed to be some sort of intuitive aesthetic judgment akin to moral ones, and can someone be mistaken in their judgments of value?
In what sense then is transvaluation not ...
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What does Rawls mean by a "day of reckoning"?
The quote (I don't remember where exactly in AToJ it is):
But we must try to postpone the day of reckoning as long as possible, and try to arrange society so that it never comes.
I think it was past ...
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What would it mean for the herd to be victorious over the overman?
What would it mean for the herd to be victorious over the overman? What would that amount to? I assume that the herd has its perverse plans, born out of ressentiment, for the ubermensch, and they will ...
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To what extent is Nietzsche an "Idealist?"
I am well aware of Nietzsche's prolonged and often prolific critiques of what he referred to as "Idealism," yet I am curious as to the extent which two of his ideas in particular, namely ...
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A quote from Lotze's Methaphysik. Is he putting forth the same idea of Nietzsche's Ubermensch?
Lotze in his book Metaphysik, article 245, writes on immortality as follows
We have no other principle for deciding it than this general idealistic belief : that every created thing will continue ...
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How would Nietzsche metaphorically apply the concept of a 'mind control parasite' to human philosophy, in relation to the will to power?
In Frederich Nietzsche's works, when he discusses a 'parasite,' he is indicating the following:
a complete lack of nobility of disposition when someone prefers to
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I can’t get what Nietzsche exactly referring to by (the later is in no respect whatever an argument in favor of the former)?
TRUTH”!—“The truth of Christianity was attested by the virtuous lives of the Christians, their firmness in suffering, their unshakable belief and above all by the spread and increase of the faith in ...
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In "Birth of Tragedy", is the dionysian nature favored by Nietzsche over the Apollonian?
As I understand from the text, one of the reasons for the decline of greek tragedy (according to Nietzsche) is the influence of Socrates's dialectical work.
Socratic maxim goes like -
Virtue is ...
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What prominent Nietzsche experts give 'empathy' a role to play in his transvaluation?
What prominent Nietzsche experts give 'empathy' a role to play in his trans-valuation? I found a paper that lists proponents of the opposite view, but it is not peer reviewed, and is just a Masters ...
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Intellectual History of Idea in A Geneaology of Morals Essay One
In Nietzsche's first essay in A Geneaology of Morals, he suggests that use of language in which subjects and verbs are distinguished may influence or at least correspond to conceptual distinctions in ...
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Is Schopenhauerian pessimism truly passive nihilism?
Nietzsche referred to Schopenhauerian pessimism as passive nihilism. Does the categorization happen to be true or is Nietzsche's analysis somehow flawed?
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Why Nietzsche believes that victims barter the damage they receive with a violent feast to see their tormentor suffer in a feast?
In the second essay of On the Genealogy of Morality: Guilt, bad conscience and the like, 6, Nietzsche seems to defend the thesis that victims barter the damage they received with a violent feast to ...
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Is Nietzsche an anti-realist about moral disagreement?
This question got me thinking:
What is the difference between the Superman and the Ultimateman?
As I understand it, moral anti-realism is the thesis that there are no moral facts outside the ...
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Did Nietzsche have anything to say about the trans-Atlantic slavery trade?
Given that there are over 300 references to slavery in Nietzsches work did he, in any of his works, address what was the most significant revival of slavery since Graeco-Roman times, that is the trans-...
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Did Nietzsche elaborate on his notion of a 'political caste to rule over Europe'
In Aphorism 251 in Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzche says:
What is serious for me ... [is] the cultivation of a new caste to rule over Europe.
And according to Nietzschean scholar Ronald Beiner, when ...
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What were the 'philosophical cover-up' practised by Heidegger in his Nietzschean lectures 1936-45
In Bambachs, Heidegger Roots, he offers an authoritative analysis of the manipulations practised by Heidegger in his Nietzsche lectures between 1936-45. He calls them a 'philosophical cover-up' ...
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What would Nietzsche think of Taoism?
I'm not too familiar with the works of Nietzche (The Gay Science, On the Genealogy of Morals, etc). However, I am familiar with the terms of overman or Ubermensch, a person who creates new morals/...
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Nietzsche's departure from Schopenhauer
I'm attempting to understand the will to power by first presenting Nietzsche's first mentor, Schopenhauer, and his notion of the will to survival/life.
In very simple terms, I believe S believed that ...
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'How to become what you are' supposing Foucault is right about the body?
The phrase is the subtitle of Ecce Homo. You can a short essay by Foucault, on Nietzsche, free of charge; it's also in his essential works: aesthetics, appearing originally in a book dedicated to ...
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How does Thus Spoke Zarathustra conclude?
How does Thus Spoke Zarathustra conclude?
"FELLOW-SUFFERING! FELLOW-SUFFERING WITH THE HIGHER MEN!" he cried
out, and his countenance changed into brass. "Well! THAT—hath had its
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My ...
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What is the relation between slave morality and free spirit in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality?
Considering the discussion on free-spirit by creating its own value system, how Nietzsche relate "free-spirit" and "slave morality"(its depth and its evilness)?
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Nietzsche: Does visual art reaffirm life?
In the Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche states that life is justified through artistic creativity. He analyses the ancient Greek tragedies to further elaborate on his point. My question is: would his ...
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What evidence is there for Nietzsche's division of people into higher and lower types?
What evidence is there that there are two types of people, specifically an elite higher type?
Did Nietzsche have authentic reasons to suppose that?
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Can 'the they self' help us understand Nietzsche's response to nihilism?
Can 'das man' or 'the they self' help us understand Nietzsche's response to nihilism? I'm asking because these are concepts I think I can intuitively grasp from within my life, quite unlike Nietzsche'...
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If history repeats as farce, then how can Nietzsche's madman prove the truth?
I keep wondering what "farce" really amounts to, in class terms, for Marx, rather than individual. On this question, there was the following comment
But, if we look at more class based movements, ...
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Is the antichrist neither "good" nor "evil", or only from a perspective which rejects both terms?
Is the antichrist neither "good" nor "evil", or only from a perspective which rejects both terms? I haven't read much Nietzsche, but surely, I'm thinking, the former!
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Could I please request an introduction to philosophy of pessimism?
Everything from essential texts, interpretations of the absurd, eternal return, interpretations of suicide and religion, and it's influence on the arts. And, I know I am asking a lot, but I'd like to ...
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The role of the fool in philosophy
The Shakespearean fool, though not necessarily well educated and by most appearances a simpleton, is nevertheless often wiser and cleverer than, and consequently outwits, his superiors of higher ...
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What does Nietzsche mean in his metaphor about dreaming and its relationship to truth?
I am having trouble understanding the following passage completely:
In accordance with the
root meaning of his association with “brightness,”
he is the god of light; he also rules over the beautiful
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Are there any websites that walkthrough Nietzsche's work?
I have often seen sites dedicated to famous literary works that break down a composition and help explain it to the beginner. I've only taken one class on philosophy so I'm not going to understand ...
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How did Antiquity deal with the disappearance of the Transcendent?
In Western Philosophy, Existentialism heeding Nietzches call was the first philosophy that dealt with the loss of the transcendent in a formal way.
Whereas prior to him, it anchored, or rather was ...
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Nietzsche's idea about conservation of human species
I am starting to get into Nietzsche's philosophy, through his book "The joyful wisdom"/"the gay science".
In the first chapter, "The Teachers of the Object of Existence", ...
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Can someone explain amor fati to me?
Can someone explain amor fati to me?
Does it just mean love who you presently are? That seems a bit bourgeois to me. Does it mean that there's no explanation for why anything happens? Again, that ...
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Do ideas bring about "power"?
Do ideas bring about "power"?
Primarily, I may be thinking of a quote about hedonic pleasure, and how these bodily sensations of power "cannot be satisfied unless the agent has a desire ...
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Nietzsche on subconscious self-justification
What is the quotation of Nietzsche where he says that he found himself somehow subconsciously lying to himself in order to feel better about something he did?
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What was Neitzche calling "old frigid and tedious frogs"?
After the first paragraph of the first essay of On the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche discusses how English psychologists may be motivated to study the darker side of "our inner world". Then ...
