Transcript Nietzsche 2 - Henry County Schools

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FRIEDRICH
NIETZSCHE
By: Korey Carroll, Peyton Bonner, and Caylin Grant
Biographical
Information
http://www.critical-theory.com/5-factsabout-nietzsche/
• Born October 15, 1844
• Attended a private prepatory school in Namburg, then
boarding school
• At age of 23, entered in military service close to
Naumburg, during this time he lived at home with
mother
• Swiss university offered him a professional position,
began teaching there in May, 1869, at age of 24
Spiritual
history &
Point-ofview
• Did not believe in Christianity and rejected idea of it
• Says people made up Christianity to “lighten our
hearts”
• Once said, “ After Buddha was dead, his shadow was
still shown for centuries in a cave- a tremendous,
gruesome shadow. God is dead; but given the way of
men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in
which his shadow will be shown. -And we- we still have
to vanquish his shadow, too” (Nietzsche's The Gay
Science, s.108, Walter Kaufmann transl.).
http://izquotes.com/quotes-pictures/quote-the-veryword-christianity-is-a-misunderstanding-in-truth-therewas-only-one-christian-and-he-friedrich-nietzsche255968.jpg
Philosophers
existential/
aesthic
Point-ofview
• Argued that the Christian system of faith and worship
was not only incorrect, but harmful to society because
it allowed the weak to rule the strong
• Wanted man to create his own values
• Contribution to existentialism was idea that men must
accept that they are part of a material world,
regardless of outside opinions
https://www.pinterest.com/sfait
hharper/humanist-pantheism/
Ethical
Point-ofview
• Nietzsche claims that we have no free will and hence
we have no moral responsibility
• His positive ethical views are best understood as
combining a kind of perfectionism as Nietzsche's
implicit theory of the good, with a conception of
human perfection involving both formal and
substantive elements.
• Takes neither his positive vision, nor those aspects of
his critique that depend upon it, to have any special
status.
http://quoteaddicts.com/topic/morality-and-ethics-quotes/
Influences
• Richard Wagner served as a mentor to Nietzsche, he
convinced Nietzsche that the genuine creation was still
possible and that inspired Nietzsche
• Arthur Schopenhauer inspired aesthetics which
influenced Nietzsche, Nietzsche later tried to redraw
the boundary between aesthetics and ethnics.
Richard Wagner
Arthur Schopenhauer
http://www.biography.com/people/richard-wagner-9521202
http://www.germany.travel/en/ms/germanoriginality/heritage/famous-people/philosophy/arthurschopenhauer-philosopher.html
Bibliography
• "Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy." Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Oct.
2016.
• Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 03 Oct.
2016.
• Wicks, Robert. "Friedrich Nietzsche." Stanford
University. Stanford University, 1997. Web. 03 Oct.
2016.
• Kemerling, Garth. "Nietzsche." Nietzsche. N.p., n.d.
Web. 03 Oct. 2016.
• "Project MUSE - Nietzsche's Affirmative Morality: An
Ethics of Virtue." Project MUSE - Nietzsche's
Affirmative Morality: An Ethics of Virtue. N.p., n.d.
Web. 03 Oct. 2016.