Friedrich Nietzsche: The Gay Science, Beyond Good And Evil

He would disagree with what Socrates chose to do in accepting death and would look at the demanor of good and evil and raise the idea that this is all dogmatic, which then should be eradicated. If Socrates’s was to leave and struggle by failing to adhere to his principals he would suffer to a degree, but in his sufferage he would become a man of greatness. Nietzsche’s ideas of good and evil being formed through religion requires for it to be gone because God is “dead” therfore meaning is found at the end of ones

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929. He attended Morehouse College and upon his graduation he chose to go in the route of his father to pursue Baptist Ministry. Dr. King wanted us all to be treated fairly; he was influenced by Mohandas Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence and was convinced that all African Americans should utilize his powerful words as a new way of an equal life. Dr. King was a civil rights activist, who believed in transcendence, that right and wrong do exist. His powerful words given during his I have a dream speech led him to earn the Noble Peace Prize. Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Röcken, Prussia in 1844. In 1864 he enrolled in the University of Bonn to study theology. He began to doubt his

Since a majority of Germans supported Hitler, they did not contradict how the Nazi party treated the Jews. At first, the Nazis took away smaller rights from the

I asked Karl Boem-Tettelbach how it was possible in the 1930s that someone could respect Hitler and what he was doing for Germany when Jews were forced to lose their jobs and leave the country. In his reply spoke, I believe, for millions of other Germans: "That never came up. Everybody thought the same, that you were in a big team and you didn't separate from the group. You were infected. That explains it a bit." (2) And as for actual officers, during the Nuremberg Trials, a Commandant named Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Hoess had this to say of his indifference, "Don't you see, we SS men were not supposed to think about these things; it never even occurred to us. And besides it was something already taken for granted that the Jews were to blame for everything….It was not just newspapers like Sturmer but it was everything we heard. Even our military and ideological training took for granted that we had to protect Germany from the Jews….We were all so trained to obey orders without even thinking that the thought of disobeying an order would never have occurred to anybody." (3) So there is a delicate balance between conscious and unconscious actions of every individual of Nazi Germany. The majority was bewitched by the charismatic Hitler who not only gave them a reason as to why they were suffering with ubiquitous propaganda, but also promised to strengthen Germany until she was beyond restored. (4) For some it was an underlying hatred that had finally found a vent. For

Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Röken, the Prussian province of Saxony on October 15 of 1844. Nietzsche had some troubles in his young age including the death of his father when he was five years old and suffering from migraines. When he was fourteen Nietzsche was awarded a scholarship to Schulpforta "with the intent of training for the clergy" (The European Graduate School). It was here that he gained a strong background in both Greek and Latin. The young theologian then continued to study theology and philosophy at the University of Bonn. He gave up on theology, however, and transferred to Leipzig where he was introduced to the works of Kant, works that would greatly influence his future writings. In 1868 he served in the army but his

Nietzsche points out that morals were not given to humans by God, nor was knowledge or instinct instilled in us by God: we have created morality just as we have decided standards for "truth" and explanations for our "human nature," and so there is no transcendent external standard. If God is dead, there are no objective values and we are free to create our own values. Nietzsche says that although the death of God liberates us, leaving us free to rule ourselves, this results in a cage-like freedom: while no value is objectively "right" or "true", if we can not choose then we are not free. Nietzsche supports the individual who, despite a lack of objective correctness or "truth", makes a decision anyway, accepting responsibility for her self-created values and actions, knowing she is these actions.

Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century, but perhaps also the most misunderstood. Born in the Prussian Province of Saxony nearing the end of 1844, Nietzsche grew into his philosophical ideals. His works encompass a wide array of themes, covering all things from truth and morality, to language, cultural theory, power and consciousness to the meaning of existence and much more in between.MORE- can be about hitler using nietzsche and about nietzsche's life. Hitler and Nazis misleadingly glorified Nietzsche’s work to justify their own regime; they, however, not only misunderstood Nietzsche's stances on Jews, the superiority of Germanic peoples, large governments and mass morality, but were aided in their

Nazi philosophers such as Baumler, Rosenberg, and many others altered Nietzsche’s philosophy and manipulated it to support their views on Nazism with Nietzsche as their forefather. Alfred Rosenberg even quoted that Nietzsche was “bound to be misunderstood” (Aschheim 237). Nazi philosophers in the Third Reich appropriated the term nietzscheanism which applies the Nazi components of Nietzsche’s philosophy most notably his concept of the will to power in society (Aschheim 240). Baumler in his Nietzsche: The Philosopher and Politician sought to politicize Nietzsche in the direction of the radical right and edited previous editions of Nietzsche to depict him as a “monolithic philosopher of heroic realism” (Whyte 179). Baumler’s conception and his

Nietzsche and Kierkegaard are both considered to be the top existentialists for solely different reasons, as well as being very different from each other. They have different philosophies when it comes to their thoughts on religion and it is important to see exactly how they line up in this regard. The best way to do this is to start from the beginning of each’s work, their history and how they grew into their respective roles in their fields. It is also important to note exactly what existentialism is. It is the theory of exercising the idea that the individual has the freedom and free will to develop their own path and existence in a responsible manner. It is a very interesting subject that is debated on the concepts of thinking in absolutes. The need to compare and contrast these two is a volatile understanding of this particular philosophical theory. It is also important to review their thoughts and critique them in the sense of saying what makes sense, and what does not make sense.

The Nazi party came to power in 1933. Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi party, had become a major political figure in Germany during this time and was viewed as an appealing leader because of his attitude towards rebuilding a struggling Germany. In Stearns, it’s stated that the Nazi party had such a strong influence because of the stable and strong message that it projected which rallied the German citizens behind it. The Nazi party, after it came to power, began to focus on many different areas of their political agenda, one area being eradicating its Jewish minority. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party believed that the Jews were at fault for all the hardships and problems that Germany was suffering from. In reality, anti-semitism was adopted by Nazi party and used as a political movement to keep the population distracted from other problems and the Nazi actions, and to instill a common passion among the German people which would help keep support for the Nazi party at high levels. Levi’s provides evidence of this distraction because of how well the Nazi’s kept the camps and what they were doing hidden. Levi states that “During the halts, no one tried to communicate with the outside world: we felt ourselves by now “on the other side”.” (Levi, Pg. 19) This statement reveals his sense of isolation from the rest of the world. The Nazi’s were taking the prisoners to barren lands far

Another philosopher who also a pioneer of existentialism was Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche’s faith, like Kierkegaard’s, was at one time rooted in Christianity. However, Kierkegaard remained embedded in his faith and Nietzsche abandoned his. Nietzsche’s existentialism had many of the same beliefs as Kierkegaard’s such as – both believed that philosophy should be based on the value of people’s beliefs and that people had to find their own way in life and decide for themselves what the meanings of life and existence are (Cline, 2011). Nietzsche was concerned

As stated previously, Nietzsche’s work was both great and highly influential. The Nazis even used his writings as a basis for their beliefs. Nietzsche believed that the greatest societies were always built upon the aristocratic system. Since he believed there

Nietzsche introduces the initial concepts of what is good to be determined by those who have benefitted from unegoistical

Nietzsche introduced an idea of philosophy that was more than simply a rational groundwork of existence or as the pursuit of an absolute truth. Instead, he suggested that philosophy is something to be respected as a personal interpretation of life and all its faculties (morality, existentialism etc.) and that was – for him - focused on life affirmation. Furthermore, this thinking implies that philosophy is not a be all and end all answer to life’s questions; rather, it is merely a

It was these grave conditions that set up the Nazis’ rise to power. Feeding on the emotions of the German populace, especially the disenchanted youth of Germany, the National Socialist movement swept through the country. Preaching a doctrine of ultra-nationalism and Germanic racial superiority, the supreme leader of the National Socialist movement, Adolf Hitler, appealed to the age-old attitudes and beliefs of the German people. Continuing the Prussian militaristic tradition, Hitler called for a full mobilization of German society with the ultimate purpose of territorial expansion. He wanted to eliminate all opposition within Germany and unite all German peoples towards the same goal, German world supremacy. He envisioned a fully mobilized Germany, void of internal conflict and inefficiency, which would create employment for all Germans, who would work for a greater German society. As