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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Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Aphorism 89
I have the Judith Norman translation, which says the following:
"Terrible experiences make you wonder if the people who have experienced them are not terrible themselves."
What people are ...
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How would Nietzsche metaphorically apply the concept of a 'mind control parasite' to human philosophy, in relation to the will to power?
In Frederich Nietzsche's works, when he discusses a 'parasite,' he is indicating the following:
a complete lack of nobility of disposition when someone prefers to
live in dependency, at the expense ...
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Can there be a Nietzschean Will to Power when our subonscious affects our desires which are dictated by ideology as Zizek points out?
Does nietzsche argue there is free will ? how can he simultaneously claim our desire is affected by the subconscious and also claim that we must figure those out and assert our will when Zizek ...
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Is it possible to argue that the world is good from a theists perspective?
In all Abrahamic religions it is taught that everything that God does is for the good. Is it philosophically possible to argue that our universe is good without arguing from the perspective of a ...
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What exactly is Nietzsche’s criticism of the Thing-in-itself and is it supplanted by his Will to Power?
How did Nietzsche criticize the Thing-in-itself from Kantian philosophy?
There are two popular claims:
Nietzsche thought that we only know causation from experiences and and so cannot legitimately ...
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Possible readings of ownership and accidents in Thus spoke Zarathustra
In the beginning of the third part of "Thus spoke Zarathustra" there is a paragraph about accidents that befall oneself (german: Zufall) and ownership:
The time is now past when ...
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Why would some philosophers consider Nietzsche the "Godfather of Fascism"?
I'm really new to philosophy and heard a lot that Nietzsche was considered the "godfather of fascism". The phrase seems to be a recent development according to Google ngram, but it is ...
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Does Nietzsche answer what "the good" actually is?
Friedrich Nietzsche gives examples of different stuff people thought "the good" might be, and refers to the idea of slave and noble morality, but he doesn't seem to answer what "good&...
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What are some theories attacking postmodernism preserving objective truth and morality without assuming a God?
From my simplified understanding postmodernism claims ?:
there is no objective truth, only interpretation
there is no objective morality, morality usually represent the interest of the powers that be
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Did Nietszche say "all human institutions are intended to prevent mankind from feeling their life"?
Someone shared this quote with me, saying it's from Nietzsche, but I can't find a source for the translation:
Is it not the case that all human institutions are intended to prevent mankind from ...
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I can’t get what Nietzsche exactly referring to by (the later is in no respect whatever an argument in favor of the former)?
TRUTH”!—“The truth of Christianity was attested by the virtuous lives of the Christians, their firmness in suffering, their unshakable belief and above all by the spread and increase of the faith in ...
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How does Nietzsche's understanding of "power" differ from his predecessors?
What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man,
the will to power, power itself.
Instead of asking what is good, I found myself asking myself what 'power' is. How does Nietzsche'...
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Can you make a promise if you experience no guilt
I am having trouble to understand why Nietzche wants to get rid of guilt. From what I understand he claims that guilt was introduced by the ressintiment of the oppressed slaves as a way to vent their ...
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Help finding a Nietzsche quote
I am trying to recall a F. Nietzsche quote that I like, but I cannot hit the right words on Google in order to find it.
The content of the quote (as I recall) is that in our vanity we want people to ...
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Where does contemporary scholarship decided that Nietzsche's philosophy/writings are perspectival?
I find it to be unfound when reading Nietzsche, himself, and I feel Nietzsche would object to this interpretation/ascription.
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