The Life & Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
TIMELINE
* Born: 1844. Rocken, Germany
* Died: 1900. Weimar, Germany
* Major Works: The Gay Science (1882),
* Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-1885),
* Beyond Good & Evil (1886),
* On the Genealogy of Morals (1887),
MAJOR IDEAS
Self deception is a particularly destructive characteristic of West Culture.
Life is The Will To Power; our natural desire is to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree possible.
Struggle, through which individuals achieve a degree of power commensurate with their abilities, is the basic fact of human existence. Ideals of human equality perpetuate mediocrity -- a truth that has been distorted and concealed by modern value systems.
Christian morality, which identifies goodness with meekness and servility is the prime culprit in creating a cultural climate that thwarts the drive for excellence and self realization God is dead; a new era of human creativity and achievement is at hand. -- Great Thinkers In The Western World. By: Ian P. McGreal, 1992
PREFACE
Much information is available on Mr. Friedrich Nietzsche, including many books that he wrote himself, during his philosophical career. I took this as a good sign I would find a fountain of enlightened material produced by the man. I've had to go through a bit of my own philosophical meditations to put my own value judgements aside, and truly look for the contributions Nietzsche gave to philosophy. Much of my understanding came only after I had a grasp of Neitzsche's history; therefore, I encourag ...