Friedrich Nietzsche

In 1888, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote "Ecce Homo," a book that reflects on his life, philosophy, and his views on morality and religion.

Friedrich Nietzsche believed that if a lie is repeated often enough, it can eventually be accepted as truth by those who hear it repeatedly. This concept highlights the influence of persuasion and manipulation in shaping collective beliefs and perceptions. Nietzsche cautioned against blindly accepting commonly held beliefs and encouraged critical thinking and questioning of established truths.

When Nietzsche recommends lying creatively, he is suggesting that individuals should use their imagination and creativity to interpret and shape reality in a way that aligns with their own values and desires. This can involve embracing a form of self-expression and self-affirmation that allows individuals to assert their own perspectives and beliefs in the face of societal norms or constraints.

Friedrich Nietzsche's gravestone is inscribed with "FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE. 1844-1900."

By referencing Nietzsche, Yeats, and Stevens in relation to nature, Oates implies that nature serves as a source of inspiration, contemplation, and reflection for these thinkers. Each of them engaged with nature in unique ways, drawing upon its beauty, power, and complexity to explore philosophical, spiritual, and artistic themes in their work. Oates likely suggests that nature holds a profound significance as a subject of exploration and creative expression for these influential figures.

Nietzsche rejected organized religion because he believed it limited individual freedom and hindered human potential. He famously declared that "God is dead" to suggest that the traditional concept of a divine being no longer held sway over society and that humanity must now create its own values and meaning. For Nietzsche, this meant embracing a life-affirming philosophy focused on self-reliance and personal growth.

Because he stated, when post roman society was started, laws were based on general christian and Jewish teachings in the western society. He said however, in the 19th century (his era of promminence) that people do not care so much about morality and are not God fearing, therefore there is no need for religion and rejected it.

Carl Jung never wrote a book on Nietzsche. He gave lectures, over several years during the 1930s which was ended due to the Second world war breaking out in Europe. A book "Seminar on Nietzsche's Zarathustra" was compiled from the notes of the students attending. Jung had already died when the book was published. Vjim Filomena, Kingston, NY

Friedrich Nietzsche said that art is the imitation truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche actually encouraged drinking, he did not discourage it.

Friedrich Nietzsche was a professor, composer, and philologist who was criticized for his works for many years. He was plagued by health problems and later had a mental breakdown and died, at the age of 55, in 1900.

Probably Ecce Homo, written in his last years, but not published until after his death in 1900. While there have been a number of essays and collections of notes and other works and manuscripts that have been published since his death, I believe Ecce Homo was the last book written by Nietzsche before he died.

The famous existentialist philosopher, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche seemed to have no kind words for the so-called Judaeo-Christian world and its ideals and ideas. In fact, when reading Nietzsche, one can easily come to the conclusion he hated everything about the world. In this he was a fore-runner of a later day existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre. After all, we are all thrown into this world without our consent, and have no obligation to honor anything but oneself. With that said, his view of Western values can be misleading and difficult to understand. Like Hegel, Nietzsche thinks aloud and his writings display his thinking and rethinking of a multitude of ideas. In Europe, he recalls the "Enlightenment" . To him nothing but nonsense. This is best seen in one of his famous quotes ( he is quoted perhaps more with the exceptions of Aristotle and Plato ) For Nietzsche, it can be seen that throughout immense expanses of time, the intellect has produced nothing but errors.

He had no use for other philosophers or Western leaders. He was an apocalyptic thinker and in this way he had an influence on Adolph Hitler. He too was in the school of apocalyptic thinkers. For him and for Nietzsche, all the world came to naught. This is seen in Hitler's ideas as his early military successes showed the valor of Germans. And, later after military disasters in the Soviet Union, he demanded no retreat. If his armies failed, it was because they were not true Germans.

To carry this a bit further, one can recall the "no surrender" edict for Japanese forces besieged on Iwo Jima. No surrender possible resulting in 22,000 plus Japanese soldiers being killed.

Nietzsche wasn't really atheist at the term's real meaning. He thought that believing in god was just wasting your life; man's true happiness is found on Earth, not in Heaven. By "God is dead" Nietzsche meant that Christianity was loosing its monopoly to tell people what is right and what is wrong.

Neitzsche is dead, God.

Friedrich Nietzsche suffered from dementia paralytica -or general paresis- as the results of contracting syphilis (STI), which left untreated (antibiotics) can cause lasting mental damages. The bacterium infects the nervous system (brain and spinal cord) that degenerates into neurosyphilis. The form of neurosyphilis Nietzsche developed typically became general paresis that progressed into dementia, then death.

Freedrick Neecha. Commonly mispronounced in the USA as Freedrick Neechi.

Friedrich Nietzsche died of a brain tumor, as his father died of the same thing before him, and at about the same age (what the autopsy then determined to be "liquifaction of the brain" was actually a massive brain tumor-induced degeneration of one half of the left hemisphere of the brain tissue for Nietzshe's father) Nietzsche's sister Elizabeth recounted on numerous occasions that when Friedrich was invalid, he would blow his nose in a handkerchief, and she noticed at that time what she thought was "brain matter" coming out his nose. The symptomology of Nietzsche's condition supports the brain tumor diagnosis. Migraines, and vision problems are typical of a growing brain tumor, and not typical of syphillis. Friedrick Nietzsche did not have syphillis, because he did not have SEX. Syphillitics have symptoms such as degenerating hand writing, and Nietzsche never had this, and it is proven by his notes. The reasons for the claim of Nietzsche having syphillis are two fold: Back in the day (1800's), ANY "neuro type" disease which could not be properly diagnosed was included under the umbrella "syphillis". Also, after WWII, many left leaning and liberal intellectuals wanted to discredit Friedrich Nietzsche with such claims of "moral impropriety" by suggesting he was frequenting brothels on a regular basis. There is simply no account that Nietzsche ever HAD sex...with anybody.

Nietzsche's famous declaration of the death of God first appears in The Gay Science, which was published in 1882.

Quoted from; by Nicolas Humphrey

from his book Leaps of Faith Does it matter if, as the analysis of the last chapters seems to show, this nightmare characterization turns out to be in all essentials true? That Nietzsche was right? That we really are body entirely and nothing beside? And that the soul, being only a word for something in the body, is in effect a word for no soul worth the name?........." For full text, see link "On The Wings of a Dove" http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/dovewing.htm

The man who coined the phrase, "God is dead".

Friedrich Nietzsche believed that religion in general, is a strong controlling group that uses cultural Morality to gain influence of a big, uneducated, majority. Also, he believed that everyday when people get more educated, there will be big chances of them not buying into religious nonsense; thus paraphrasing "God is dead."

Nietzsche didn't live at the time when Hitler rose to public so he didn't have a change to comment Hitler's actions. It is although well-known that Nietzsche was strongly against Anti-Semitism and Pan-Germanism, two main principles of the Nazi ideology, so there is a high change he would have opposed Hitler. If Nietzsche wouldn't have been against Hitler, he would have opposed at least the Nazis, who meet Nietzsche's definition of "herd" (a group of "slaves" who can't become "masters" themselves).

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.

Nietzsche described master Morality is some kind of honor, creator of values, art, nobility...while

slave Morality is friendship, and compassion. Slave morality speaks against power believes it to a negative. For Nietzsche, master morality is detrimental to freedom.