Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Nietzsche

Definition:
noun
-German scholar, philosopher, and critic


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Nietzsche began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy.


Nietzsche's disbelief may have happened in part of his reading of David Strauss's book Life of Jesus, which had a profound effect on the young Nietzsche, though in an essay entitled Fate and History written in 1862, Nietzsche had already argued that historical research had discredited the central teachings of Christianity


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Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche's Moral and Political Philosophy

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Central to his philosophy is the idea of "life-affirmation", which involves questioning of all doctrines that drain life's expansive energies, however socially prevalent those views might be.His influence remains substantial within philosophy, notably in existentialism, post-modernism, and post-structuralism, as well as outside it. His radical questioning of the value and objectivity of truth has been the focus of extensive commentary, especially in the continental tradition.

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