Friedrich%20Nietzsche

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Friedrich Nietzsche

• By Hannah C. Marion AKA The Stache Expert

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Info to Know AboutNIETZSCHE!

• Born on October 15, 1844 in Röcken bei Lützen,
  Germany
• FUN FACTHis nickname was Fritz
• He attended the Schulpforta boarding school from
  ages 14-19
• He went to the University of Bonn in 1864 where
  he would ultimately lose all faith in
  Christianity

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NIHILISM

• a. an extreme form of skepticism the denial 
• of all real existence or the possibility of an 
• objective basis for truth.
• b. nothingness or nonexistence.
• (Dictionary.com)

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NIETZSCHE the NIHILIST

• First philosopher to truly question Western
  cultures view on morality and human existence
• He believed that there was no such thing as a
  universal set of morals
• There is no moral truth, only moral
  interpretation
• He believed that people have morals based on
  their culture and psychology

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Sense Perception andNIETZSCHE!

• The only known truths are those we know directly
  from our senses
• Reason is what ruins human perception of the
  world
• This is because it deceives the declaration of
  our senses
• The only real world is that which we can
  experience through our senses

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NIETZSCHE vs. PlatoThe Ultimate SHOWDOWN!

• Plato
• One cannot trust their senses for truth
• Truth can only be found through reasoning
• There are universal morals

• NIETZSCHE
• Senses constitute truth
• Reason gets in the way of truth
• Morals are different for every individual

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Influences

• During the late 1800s his work was commonly
  linked to anarchism
• During World War I, Nietzsches book, Thus Spoke
  Zarathustra was given out as a gift to soldiers
• His works helped to promote militarism in Germany
• Nietzsche influenced both the Nazis and the
  Fascists

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QUESTION TIME!

• Why do you think the Nazis and the Fascists read
  Nietzsches works?

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QUESTION TIME!

• What influence do you think Nietzsches work had
  on the Fascists and the Nazis and their ideas?

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Philosophy of NIETZSCHE!

• He loved creativity and the art stemming from it
• He focused his philosophy around that creativity
• God is dead!
• He was fervently against religion
• Christianity is the religion of the slaves and
  weaklings.

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Philosophy of NIETZSCHE!

• He had a more romanticist view on perception as
  opposed to the ancient Greeks
• He thought that feelings of guiltiness happen
  only because of Christian morality
• He believed that power motivated the actions of
  the people

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Perspectivism

• There is no absolute, God's eye standpoint
  from which one can survey everything that is.
  (Stanford)

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Übermensch

• Translates to Superman
• The Superman (Utopia of man) has overcome his
  instincts and does not refuse them
• He can express his feelings fully because he has
  overcome his instincts

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What Did Old Fritzy Have To Say?

• All credibility, all good conscience, all
  evidence of truth come only from the senses.
• All things are subject to interpretation
  whichever interpretation prevails at a given time
  is a function of power and not truth.
• All truly great thoughts are conceived by
  walking.
• Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
  
• Nothing is beautiful, only the human individual
  is beautiful.
• Plato was a bore.

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Last Thought

• "A man without a moustache is a man without a
  soul.
• -Confucius

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Works Cited

• Curry, Bill The Perspectives of Nietzsche.
• University of Pittsburgh. Web. 9 Feb. 2011
  lthttp//www.pitt.edu/wbcurry/nietzsche.htmlgt.
• Friedrich Immanuel Nietzsche. California State
  University Dominguez Hills. Web. 9 Feb. 2011
  lthttp//www.csudh.edu/phenom_stu dies/europ19/lec
  t_8.htmlgt.
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford
  University, 15 Mar. 2010. Web. 9 Feb. 2011
  lthttp//plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/Lif
  1 84190gt.
• Dictionary.com. Ask, 2011. Web. 15 Feb. 2011
  lthttp//dictionary.reference.com/browse/nihilismgt
  .