Philosophy
1844 to 1900, Saxony
The will to power, the death of God, and the revaluation of values.
Start learning Friedrich →Nietzsche’s famous proclamation that ‘God is dead’ - the collapse of the religious and metaphysical foundations of Western values - and the crisis of nihilism it unleashes.
Nietzsche’s genealogy of morals - his radical claim that our morality of ‘good and evil’ arose from a ‘slave revolt,’ the resentment of the weak against the strong, inverting an older ‘nobl…
Nietzsche’s vision of the Übermensch (‘overman’) - the human being who overcomes themselves, creates their own values, and affirms life - as the answer to nihilism and the meaning of human existence.
Nietzsche’s strange and profound thought experiment - that you must live your life over and over, eternally, exactly the same - as the ultimate test of whether you can affirm your existence.
Nietzsche’s claim that the fundamental drive of all life is the ‘will to power’ - and his radical perspectivism: that there are no facts, only interpretations, no view from nowhere.
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