Nie·tzsche

(nē′chə, -chē), Friedrich Wilhelm 1844-1900.

German philosopher who argued that Christianity's emphasis on the afterlife makes its believers less able to cope with earthly life. He suggested that the ideal human, the Übermensch, would be able to channel passions creatively instead of suppressing them. His written works include Beyond Good and Evil (1886) and Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883-1892).

Nie′tzsche·an adj. & n.

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Nietzsche

(ˈniːtʃə)

(Biography) Friedrich Wilhelm (ˈfriːdrɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm). 1844–1900, German philosopher, poet, and critic, noted esp for his concept of the superman and his rejection of traditional Christian values. His chief works are The Birth of Tragedy (1872), Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883–91), and Beyond Good and Evil (1886)

Nietzschean n, adj

ˈNietzscheˌism, ˈNietzscheanˌism n

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Nie•tzsche

(ˈni tʃə, -tʃi)
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Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844–1900, German philosopher.

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Nietzsche - influential German philosopher remembered for his concept of the superman and for his rejection of Christian values; considered, along with Kierkegaard, to be a founder of existentialism (1844-1900)

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On the other hand, if wage slavery were abolished, and I could earn some spare money without paying tribute to an exploiting capitalist, then there would be a magazine for the purpose of interpreting and popularizing the gospel of Friedrich Nietzsche, the prophet of Evolution, and also of Horace Fletcher, the inventor of the noble science of clean eating; and incidentally, perhaps, for the discouraging of long skirts, and the scientific breeding of men and women, and the establishing of divorce by mutual consent."

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"When you go to women," says Nietzsche, "take your whip with you." Sensible despots have never confined that precaution to women: they have taken their whips with them when they have dealt with men, and been slavishly idealized by the men over whom they have flourished the whip much more than by women.

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The notion of rearing the Superman is only a new form of an ideal Nietzsche already had in his youth, that "THE OBJECT OF MANKIND SHOULD LIE IN ITS HIGHEST INDIVIDUALS" (or, as he writes in "Schopenhauer as Educator": "Mankind ought constantly to be striving to produce great men--this and nothing else is its duty.") But the ideals he most revered in those days are no longer held to be the highest types of men.

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* Friederich Nietzsche, the mad philosopher of the nineteenth century of the Christian Era, who caught wild glimpses of truth, but who, before he was done, reasoned himself around the great circle of human thought and off into madness.

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He'll talk Nietzsche, or Schopenhauer, or Kant, or anything, but the only thing in this world, not excepting Mary, that he really cares for, is his monism.

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He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied it except when he loafed through the winter mouths and read Nietzsche and Schopenhauer to rest his brain.

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John, a young magazine writer, was an anarchic disciple of Nietzsche. Masson, a painter, held to a doctrine of eternal recurrence that was petrifying.

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In structure he was the blonde beast of Nietzsche, but all this animal beauty was heightened, brightened and softened by genuine intellect and spirituality.

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Exploring Nietzsche's criticism of religion on the light of his communication of mood, Saarinen argues that the German philosopher aims, through his writing, to make possible a transformation of feeling, specifically towards post-religious modes of experiences.

Nietzsche, Religion, and Mood

Asked on BBC Radio 4's From Ubermensch to Superman about her motivation for writing this book, she said Strindberg corresponded with Nietzsche in his last sane year and introduced Munch to Nietzsche's work, soon after Munch painted The Scream.

I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche

Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right.

BEINER, Ronald. Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right