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Was Nietzsche an amoralist?
Was Friedrich Nietzsche against morality, or at least in favor of not giving it importance? For example, what would Nietzsche think of someone who qualifies for what he considers the Ubermensch or ‘...
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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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Do you find commonalities between existentialism and transcendentalism?
As far as I can think of they both promote a sense of individualism but are they even comparable or do they overlap in any way?
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Do Kierkegaard and Nietzsche have similar ideas about being and becoming?
I have not read much of Kierkegaard's philosophy, but this quote comes in mind when comparing his philosophy to Nietzsche's in terms of being and becoming:
“To be human, is not a fact, but a task.” ...
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How does Martin Heidegger want us to react to anxiety?
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After the world of das Man loses its significance and becomes meaningless, one falls in anxiety and he's able to embrace other possibilities.
But this anxiety is converted automatically ...
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Critique of Nietzsche's 'Ressentiment'?
I know roughly what Nietzsche conceives 'ressentiment' to be, basically the inability to react to (and hence festering of) the feeling of being oppressed and powerless over a long time.
Does anyone ...
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Does Nietzsche say, and mean, that all life is unavoidably tragic?
Does Nietzsche say, and mean, that all life is unavoidably tragic?
All I know, right now, is that he had a book The Birth of Tragedy, about theater I think. And, I think, that all life is a struggle ...
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Could I please request an introduction to philosophy of pessimism?
Everything from essential texts, interpretations of the absurd, eternal return, interpretations of suicide and religion, and it's influence on the arts. And, I know I am asking a lot, but I'd like to ...
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How does master morality damage the herd?
Does Nietzsche ever suggest that "master morality" is irrevocably damaging to the herd, that it can seduce them?
And in what sense would that matter, either for the herd, the individual beast, or ...
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Dasein is or isn't responsible, isn't accountable: so what?
I was looking at this
The Origins of Responsibility
By François Raffoul
It's not immediately clear what it means to be responsible but not accountable. Is it just the very loud claim that Dasein'...
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Does human progress ultimately reduce individuals to Nietzsche's last men?
Human progress – technological, scientific, social, etc. – seeks to reduce, and ultimately totally eliminate, the aspects of life we perceive as unpleasant – loss, tragedy, suffering ... However, an ...
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What does Nietzsche mean by the intellectual costs that "For" and "Against" incur?
In the preface of Human, All Too Human Nietzsche talks about control over one's For and Against. He mentions this after stating that the free spirit is able to become a master over virtues and uses ...
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Is Nietzsche saying here that agnostics admire the unintelligible?
I need help understanding the last two paragraphs of the 25th section, third essay, which is provided below from the free link: http://home.sandiego.edu/~janderso/360/genealogy3.htm
Similarly who ...
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What are some good books about existential philosophy?
I recently have gained a lot of interest in philosophy and have especially taken to Nietzsche's work and ideas. I am reading philosophy to understand on a more personal level to lead a more fulfilled ...
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The man who wants to die
This is a phrase I stumbled across in Deleuze work on Nietzsche, but I don't know of where it appears in the latter's work.
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the distinction between the last man and the man who wants to die ...
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