2007-06-06 03:06:27 · 12 answers · asked by BFranklin07 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
He's not a Satanist like everyone (I know) thinks of him. He didn't believe in a Supreme Power (at least not one that gave a damn about any of us), only in his own ability to give his life meaning.
His work, the AntiChrist, is about how religion is a form of mass control, not about embracing evil. He's not against God and Jesus in and of themselves,but as how they're used to take away the power and importance of the individual.
His "will to power" is the one universally binding existentialist concept- that a person and only that person is responsible for his choices and actions. Add whatever nuances and auxiliary concepts you want. If you're an existentialist, you believe this.
2007-06-06 05:55:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
He was fearless in is evisceration of other philosophical principles and wrote about it in the most pleasing way. Reading Nietzsche is a lot like hitting acid for the first time, you hear everybody talk about it but you don't really understand until you actually do it. And your outlook will be forever altered.
2007-06-06 04:23:47 · answer #2 · answered by ycats 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
...But God died first. Don't waste time, and start reading. If you want something relevant to todays society, the idea of freedom, and the mass of people saying...we have freedom, you do not have freedom, this is our greatest achievement, Nietzsche actually asks looks for meaning in humanity. Freedom is fine....but its what you do with it that important. Check him out. I
2007-06-06 03:23:42 · answer #3 · answered by David D 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know a lot about Nietzsche. He is my favorite philosopher - right up their with Camus.
Why do you ask?
2007-06-06 04:40:24 · answer #4 · answered by FIGJAM 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He was a hard nosed logician that took a hard look at the human condition and expressed the logical conclusion which most people didn't like. He didn't say it had to to be that way just that mankind in all of its glory - sucks!
2007-06-06 03:17:33 · answer #5 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
a philosopher who believed god and christ were dead . A scary thought if you ask me, to believe that oneself is the way is to look at the universe and believe that it is just by chance, einstein believed in god he thought science was gods structure for the universe, and it is way to complicated to just be by chance
2007-06-06 15:40:41 · answer #6 · answered by paulcarberry2002 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wasn't he that linebacker for the Packers who was in the original The Longest Yard movie?
2007-06-06 03:20:21 · answer #7 · answered by Tim O 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
An emotionally unstable man as a result of how often and what he thought about.
2007-06-06 04:59:23 · answer #8 · answered by guru 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He's dead.
His sister published his notes.
He was a deviant.
When you read his works, read them "tongue in cheek" and not literally and you'll be able to understand them.
The Nazi's read him literally and look what happened to those fools.
2007-06-06 03:12:32 · answer #9 · answered by lycurgus_the_lawgiver 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He said: "God is dead."
I ask: "Where is Nietzsche now?"
2007-06-06 03:14:35 · answer #10 · answered by aumklim 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋