Questions tagged [nietzsche]
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a German philosopher and poet. Nietzsche is consistently one of the most widely-read philosophers, even among laymen; yet his work is often elliptical, even cryptic, and demands an unusual discipline with respect to reading and thinking. This contradiction may give some sense of the complexity and profundity of Nietzsche's powerful writing and explosive style. Much of his work can be understood as critique of nihilism.
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Does the last man hate work?
Does the last man hate work? This probably strikes the site as a facile question, but Zarathustra does seem to end with beginning his work, and the last man has lost the capacity to hate himself (that'...
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How do you interpret Nietzsche’s statement, "…, if the goal of humanity be still lacking, is there not still lacking humanity itself?"
The full quotation reads:
But pray tell me, my brethren, if the goal of humanity be still
lacking, is there not still lacking humanity itself?
I am curious about how others perceive this excerpt ...
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Is Nietzsche's last man authentically envious?
Is the last man an authentically envious person (or state of mind), devising ways to steal what others will have, their happiness, and what they would be jealous of if it came to pass? I think it ...
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Revisiting Nietzsche and Scheler's Philosophies of Ressentiment
One often hears Nietzsche's views on ressentiment cited, but I contend that they are resentful. Nietzsche considered ressentiment as a central theme of his philosophy describing it as feelings of ...
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Can we ask for justification of someone that mistreats us, even if we are Nietzschean?
Can we ask for justification of someone that mistreats us, even if we are Nietzschean? I do not want to engage in ressentiment, but "why" is a question I seem unable to let go of. Normally ...
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Has anyone compiled a list of all the philosophical works Nietzsche critiques in Beyond Good and Evil?
I know this isn't really a philosophy question; I just want to read everything Nietzsche read. I have a picture of him over my bed and I kiss his little forehead every night.
Also, why does he say ...
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Does anybody understand what Nietzsche meant by ‘Seriousness in Play’?
The quote below is from Human, All Too Human by F. Nietzsche. It is rare because it describes where he was physically and what he sensed:
Seriousness in Play. - In Genoa one evening, in the twilight, ...
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What amount of egoism is natural, even necessary, even moral? [closed]
In his second theorem in the Critique of Practical Reason, Kant states that a rational being's consciousness of the agreeableness of life accompanying his whole existence is happiness, and the ...
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Need help interpreting chapter 9 from the first essay of the Genealogy of Morals
In this chapter Nietzsche says:
It is the church that repulses us, not its poison - apart from the Church we like the poison.
I am under the impression that "us" refers to the freethinker. ...
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Was 'life' inherently/objectively good in Nietzsche's philosophy? How to overcome Nihilism?
I understand that after Nietzsche got rid of objective morality in his philosophical process, he went ahead and claimed that even though there is no objective morality that his personal philosophy ...
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Can atheism be considered as cult [closed]
I had recently conversation trying to understand if atheism is religion.
However best argument I had - is that lack of belief into something isn’t theology - and it seems fare to me.
However speaking ...
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Can we create our own essence/values like what Nietzsche proposed as a solution to nihilism - ubermensch?
I watched Jordan Peterson's lecture on Existentialism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsoVhKo4UvQ&ab_channel=JordanBPeterson
and he said that Nietzsche's idea of ubermensch - a new human species ...
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Is it a dumbing down of amor fati to use it to accept other people's behaviour and have less expectations of them?
Is it a dumbing down of amor fati to use it to accept other people's behaviour and have less expectations of them? It reminds me of stoic tips for a happier life, fabricated quotes by famous ...
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Why was Nietzsche misunderstood?
Why was Nietzsche misunderstood? Philosophy isn't necessarily easy to understand, but with e.g. the nazis, was it a malicious misreading of him that set germany on the road to extreme fascism? Is it ...
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There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Are these words of Shakespeare,inspired by Marcus Aurelius, true?
This question is not about ethics. It is about our perceptions of positive and negative value. I take the original meaning of the great emperor to be that we have control only of our own thinking, and ...
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