Friedrich Nietzsche's main advantage was his ability to challenge traditional beliefs and values, paving the way for new ways of thinking. His disadvantage was his declining mental health in his later years, which led to a breakdown and ultimately being institutionalized.
There is no definitive answer to this question as it is subjective and depends on individual perspectives. Some commonly recognized influential philosophers throughout history include Plato, Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, and Friedrich Nietzsche.
I started this answer by clicking on "edit" from the answer previously given. I do believe that the answer already given needs major work. Thus we speak here about one of the most famous philosophers in the era of what can be called modern philosophy, despite the fact that Nietzsche lived from 1844 to 1900. Nietzsche was well educated, was a professor in Germany, and his intellect is rated high by other philosophers and historians whether they agreed with him or not. Nietzsche's core belief was that the validity of society's values concerning culture, law, religion, politics and history were for the most part invalid at best and damaging when held to their highest execution. He had strong reasoning for this and this paraphrase of one of his quotations is often cited as an example of this. Nietzsche said that throughoutthe annals of time the "intellect of man" has been proven time and time again as being wrong and thus damaging. Examples of this can be seen by any student of history, however, Nietzsche's unmovable stance can be questioned. Armed with the belief that all the areas mentioned earlier were false and flawed, Nietzsche believed that each man was obligated to form his own belief systems and not be wedded to the accepted values of his time. He was of course a philosopher and thus was in the position to find faults often major ones with all previous attempts by philosophers to explain the meanings of life and what these meanings meant. He was not an atheist at all but had a low opinion of God. His infamous three word comment that "God is dead" has been misunderstood and -or argued among the clergy, philosophers, and historians. He believed in one view that man has killed God by not following the "rules" that God has put forth on how to live. Nietzsche thought out loud whether God created man or whether God was the product of man's belief. For certain, he was a pessimist and questioned the validity or value of life itself. His rejection of most of societies core values has placed him by consensus in the philosophic school of Existentialism.
Many influential thinkers have contributed to philosophy throughout history, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Rene Descartes, Immanuel Kant, and Friedrich Nietzsche, among others. Each of these individuals helped shape and advance various schools of thought within philosophy.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a philosopher and important person to German Idealism. He wrote The Phenomenology of Spirit, among other works. Hegelianism stems from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and he influenced Marxism.
Many people point to Kierkegaard and Nietzsche as the two most prominent philosophers of existentialism. My first answer was incorrect. I was thinking about existentialist philosophers. To correct this I propose that Aristotle and Plato are two of the most prominent philosophers.
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You are most likely talking about Friedrich Nietzsche, an existentialist German philosopher from the 19th century. A man of bold words and ideas, he has been perhaps one of the polarizing philosophers in history, especially due to his many attacks on Christian ideology and ethics, and because of the misappropriation of his works by the Nazis. He also remains an important character for his role in developing the theory of existentialism.
There is no definitive answer to this question as it is subjective and depends on individual perspectives. Some commonly recognized influential philosophers throughout history include Plato, Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, and Friedrich Nietzsche.
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