Friedrich Nietzsche
Allison
assign everyone a topic to look into/research and talk about coming up
this Monday!!
Dominique and myself will be talking a little bit about his youth,
what happened to him during that time to create a spiral of negative
in his life.
Myrna and Gregg will be talking about him becoming a Professor-what he
did, what he taught...what influenced him etc.
Kmmos/Tenzin will be discussing him being an independent philosopher-
what his philosophical outlook was.
Katelyn/Priscilla will be discussing him being an immoralist, his
"death of God" view, nihilism, and perspectivism- this all ties into
one really.
If anyone has any questions let me know. I think this will be more
organized in how we present and what we talk about. Of course we will
still be using the discussion board and if anyone has any input on
this feel free to well, discuss : )
If everyone could please let me know that you are okay with this!!
Allison
Dominique and I can discuss this bc his youth is really short. Let me
know if your okay with this Dominique, or someone else can
volunteer!!!!!
Dominique Fennell
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Arya, Tenzin
-Kmmos/Tenzin will be discussing him being an independent philosopher-
what his philosophical outlook was.
Here is what I have so far:
Nietzsche viewed the task of the philosopher as destroying old values,
creating new ideals, and through them erecting a new civilization. He
thought that the mind was an instrument of instinct that people used to
benefit themselves, in other words he thought that god was just an
object and human faith wad dead, people always talked about their faith
but acted according to their instincts.
His philosophy on the society was that according to Nietzsche, people
who had power preyed upon the weaker, moral and peaceful societies.
According to him a healthy society did not exist for its own sake, but
it exists for the sake of the higher type of person. For Nietzsche, the
Will to Power was the dominant principle of organic function. Without
the Will to Power exploiting the sentimental weaknesses of equality
among people, society cannot develop
He said that there were two types of man, the noble type of man which
is of the higher-type and is not subject to the morality of the herd,
and then there is the lower-type of man who is subjected to the morality
of the herd. Morality favored mediocrity; standing beyond good and evil
is rising above the herd.
The two primary types of morality were master morality and slave
morality.In master morality the good and bad is considered almost equal
to noble because it is coming from the master since the master creates
the value.
Slave morality is an attitude or herd morality which succumbs to the
standards of the master morality. Master morality preys and benefits
from its weak and powerless slave morality. He considered the strong and
independent individuals as evil
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myrna garsuta
Nietzsche as a University student studied theology and classical philology at the University of Bonn for one year. The next year, Nietzsche returned to Leipzig, dropped his study of theology and completes the requirements for his doctorate degree of philology, his teacher Professor Ritschl strongly recommended to the position of Chair of Classical Philology which had became vacant at University of Basel in Switzerland in 1868. As the University of Basel appointed him to the post, Leipzig University conferred a doctorate degree upon Nietzsche without fulfilling his requirements. He became professor of classical philology at the University of Basel at the young age of 24. For ten years, from 1869-1879, Friedrich Nietzsche taught as a professor in Basel. While teaching in University of Basel, Nietzsche was a kind of person who had an unusual and odd personality for most parts. He was hard to get along with other people in the University. Nietzsche was no exception and was not very unsuccessful as a teacher at Basel University. The teaching obligation burdened him and he constantly fought with his colleagues. He missed classes all the time and often deeply tortured by the meaninglessness of the existence. Poor health let to his retirement at age 35. Looking back, it is clear that his love of literature and philology comes one of his core beliefs that “there are no facts, only interpretation.” His leaving of the faith was influenced greatly by Arthur Schopenhauer’s philosophy and thought that emphasized the role of man’s basic motivation called will, which is, a metaphysical existence which controls not only the actions of individual, intelligent agents, but ultimately all observable phenomena. Opinion: I think Nietzsche’s hard life experience since childhood affects his views of God and religion. No doubt the loss of such close family members, his father and younger brother, caused him to questions God and His divine sovereignty. I agree of Nietzsche’s some unique philosophies like existentialism that deals with the conditions of existence of the individual person and their emotions, actions, responsibilities and thoughts. The individual is solely responsible for giving their own life meaning and living that life passionately and sincerely. People are entirely free and thus we are responsible with our actions and what we are becoming will depend on our own choices and decisions of our lives. |
Katelyn M Mosher
Nietzsche claimed that the death of God would eventually lead to the loss of any universal perspective on things, and along with it any logical sense of objective truth. Instead we would retain only our own multiple, diverse, and fluid perspectives. This view has since then acquired the name "perspectivism".
Alternatively, the death of God may lead beyond bare perspectivism to outright nihilism, which is the belief that nothing has any natural importance and that life lacks purpose. As Heidegger put the problem, "If God as the suprasensory ground and goal of all reality is dead, if the suprasensory world of the Ideas has suffered the loss of its obligatory and above it its vitalizing and upbuilding power, then nothing more remains to which man can cling and by which he can orient himself." Developing this idea, Nietzsche wrote Thus Spoke Zarathustra, there introducing the concept of a value-creating Übermensch.
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SO I FOCUSED ON NIETZCHE'S DEATH OF GOD VIEW, NIHILISM, AND PERSPECTIVISM. SO PRISCILLA YOU CAN WRITE ABOUT HIM BEING AN IMMORALIST?
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Priscilla
On Apr 10, 6:16 pm, Katelyn M Mosher <kmmos...@bhcc.edu> wrote:
> The statement "God is dead," occurring in several of Nietzsche's works has become one of his best-known remarks. On the basis of it, most commentators regard Nietzsche as an atheist; others suggest that this statement reflects a more slight understanding of religion. In Nietzsche's view, recent developments in modern science and the increasing secularization of European society had effectively 'killed' the Christian God, who had served as the basis for meaning and value in the West for more than a thousand years.
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> Nietzsche claimed that the death of God would eventually lead to the loss of any universal perspective on things, and along with it any logical sense of objective truth. Instead we would retain only our own multiple, diverse, and fluid perspectives. This view has since then acquired the name "perspectivism".
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> Alternatively, the death of God may lead beyond bare perspectivism to outright nihilism, which is the belief that nothing has any natural importance and that life lacks purpose. As Heidegger put the problem, "If God as the suprasensory ground and goal of all reality is dead, if the suprasensory world of the Ideas has suffered the loss of its obligatory and above it its vitalizing and upbuilding power, then nothing more remains to which man can cling and by which he can orient himself." Developing this idea, Nietzsche wrote Thus Spoke Zarathustra, there introducing the concept of a value-creating Übermensch.
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> ..............
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> SO I FOCUSED ON NIETZCHE'S DEATH OF GOD VIEW, NIHILISM, AND PERSPECTIVISM. SO PRISCILLA YOU CAN WRITE ABOUT HIM BEING AN IMMORALIST?
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