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Nietzsche and asserted
Nietzsche noted a link between crime and creativityin The Birth of Tragedy he asserted: " The best and brightest that man can acquire he must obtain by crime ".
Nietzsche asserted that the psychological reality of redemption was "... new way of life, not a new faith.

Nietzsche and Christian
The death of God, in particular the statement that " we killed him ", is similar to the self-dissolution of Christian doctrine: due to the advances of the sciences, which for Nietzsche show that man is the product of evolution, that earth has no special place among the stars and that history is not progressive, the Christian notion of God can no longer serve as a basis for a morality.
By the 19th century the philosophers Schopenhauer and Nietzsche could access the Indian scriptures for discussion of the doctrine of reincarnation, which recommended itself to the American Transcendentalists Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson and was adapted by Francis Bowen into Christian Metempsychosis.
Nietzsche compares genuine free spirits with the Assassins: " When the Christian crusaders in the Orient came across that invincible order of Assassinsthat order of free spirits par excellence whose lowest order received, through some channel or other, a hint about that symbol and spell reserved for the uppermost echelons alone, as their secret: " nothing is true, everything is permitted ".
Nietzsche sees the complacency of Christian values as fetters to the achievement of overman as well as on the human spirit.
George Allen Morgan, a former Harvard student under Alfred North Whitehead and himself the author of the classic What Nietzsche Means, subsequently assisted Rosenstock-Huessy in the preparation of The Christian Future or the Modern Mind Outrun in 1946.
Scheler argues that is not enough to just reject such traditions, as did Nietzsche with the Judeo-Christian religion by saing that " God is dead "; these traditions have impregnated all parts of our culture, and therefore still determine a great deal of the way of thinking even of those that don't believe in the Christian God.
This section, named in honor of his friend Paul Rée ’ s On the Origin of Moral Sensations, Nietzsche challenges the Christian idea of good and evil, and as it was philosophized by Arthur Schopenhauer.
Nietzsche claimed that the Christian religion and its morality are based on imaginary fictions.
Nietzsche opposed the Christian concept of God because it "... degenerated into the contradiction of life, instead of being life's transfiguration and eternal ' Yes '!
" Recalling Schopenhauer's description of the denial of the will to live and the subsequent empty nothingness, Nietzsche proclaimed that the Christian God is "... the sanctification of the will to nothingness!
" Nietzsche criticized the " strong races of northern Europe " for accepting the Christian God and not creating a new god of their own.
" Nietzsche maintained that the traditional Christian God of " monotono-theism " ( Monotono – Theismus ) supports "... all the instincts of decadence, all cowardices and weariness of the soul ...
Buddhism is too positivistic and truthful, according to Nietzsche, to have advocated the Christian virtues of faith, hope, and charity.
Nietzsche called these virtues the three Christian shrewdnesses.
Jewish, and subsequently, to a greater degree, Christian, priests survived and attained power by siding with decadents, Nietzsche claimed.
Nietzsche saw a world – historical irony in the way that the Christian Church developed in antithetical opposition to the Evangel and the Gospel of early Christianity.
Nietzsche did not demur of Jesus, saying he was the " only one true Christian ".
For Nietzsche, the institution or eponym, Christian, was both ironic and hypocritical.
' In fact at no point in the text does Nietzsche use any form of the German word Christ other than to mean ' Christian.
Later Christian existentialists synthesized Kierkegaardian themes with the works of thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, and Martin Buber.
But the hell of Hades is not associated either with the antique or the Christian world, it is sooner connected with that of Nietzsche ’ s one: " even god possesses his hell – which is his love to people ".
Important in their beliefs are theses by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Eduard v. Hartmann and Feuerbach in order to attack Christian moral and to replace it with a pagan one.
Nietzsche argued that Christian theism as a belief system had been a moral foundation of the Western world, and that the rejection and collapse of this foundation as a result of modern thinking ( the death of God ) would naturally cause a rise in nihilism or the lack of values.

Nietzsche and "...
In Untimely Meditations, Nietzsche writes that: "... the goal of humanity lies in its highest specimens ".
Nietzsche in the same passage ( Part I, section 5 ) makes some of his most controversial pronouncements, wondering for instance if "... the conqueror and master race, the Aryan, is not succumbing physiologically ," to a " dark, black-haired aboriginal " race of pre-Aryans It is a matter of scholarly debate whether or not Nietzsche intended such statements to be understood literally or figuratively and similarly there may be doubts about whether or not Theognis advocated eugenics or social selection when making such statements as this:
Zeller was also, in Philosophie der Griechen, one of the first to use the term " übermensch ", later reified by Nietzsche, in adjectival form: "... so kann die Glückseligkeit, welche in ihr besteht, auch als eine übermenschliche, die Glückseligkeit der ethischen Tugend dagegen als das eigenthümlich menschliche Gut bezeichnet werden.
And even as Kant " had to do away with knowledge to make room for faith ," Jaspers values Nietzsche in large measure because he thinks that Nietzsche did away with knowledge, thus making room for Jaspers ' philosophic faith "...
John Locke's chapter XXVII " On Identity and Diversity " in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ( 1689 ) has been said to be one of the first modern conceptualizations of consciousness as the repeated self-identification of oneself, through which moral responsibility could be attributed to the subject and therefore punishment and guiltiness justified, as critics such as Nietzsche would point out, affirming "... the psychology of conscience is not ' the voice of God in man '; it is the instinct of cruelty ... expressed, for the first time, as one of the oldest and most indispensable elements in the foundation of culture.
* Jorge Luis Borges, in his short story " The Doctrine of Cycles " explains and refutes the concept of the Eternal Return, citing it as being "... usually attributed to Nietzsche.
Nietzsche, on the contrary, praised "... virtue free of moralic acid.
But, for Nietzsche, pity "... multiplies misery and conserves all that is miserable, and is thus a prime instrument of the advancement of decadence: pity persuades men to nothingness!
They are supposed to represent a high, pure, and superior spirit that is above and has "... benevolent contempt for the ' understanding ,' the ' senses ,' ' honors ,' ' good living ,' and ' science ' ..." But, to Nietzsche, " Pure spirit is pure lie " and he called the priest a "... denier, slanderer, and poisoner of life ..." who is a "... conscious advocate of nothingness and negation ..." and who stands truth upside down on its head.
Nietzsche claimed that Buddhism is " beyond good and evil " because it has developed past the "... self – deception of moral concepts ...
According to Nietzsche, they have "... the toughest national will to life which has ever existed on earth.
Nietzsche alleged that "... one is not ' converted ' to Christianity one must be sufficiently sick for it.
" Nietzsche believed that Christianity is a conspiracy "... against health, beauty, whatever has turned out well, courage, intellect, goodness of the soul, against life itself.

Nietzsche and is
For the figure of Vincent Berger Malraux has obviously drawn on his studies of T. E. Lawrence ( though Berger fights on the side of the Turks instead of against them ), and like both Lawrence and Malraux himself he is a fervent admirer of Nietzsche.
It is Martin Heidegger, not Nietzsche, who elaborated a new interpretation of Aristotle, intended to warrant his deconstruction of scholastic and philosophical tradition.
Friedrich Nietzsche, although himself dismissive of Buddhism as yet another nihilism, developed his philosophy of accepting life-as-it-exists and self-cultivation, which is extremely similar to Buddhism as better understood in the West.
Other utilitarian-type views include the claims that the end of action is survival and growth, as in evolutionary ethics ( the 19th-century English philosopher Herbert Spencer ); the experience of power, as in despotism ( the 16th-century Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli and the 19th-century German Friedrich Nietzsche ); satisfaction and adjustment, as in pragmatism ( 20th-century American philosophers Ralph Barton Perry and John Dewey ); and freedom, as in existentialism ( the 20th-century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre ).
" Nietzsche, who was heavily influenced by Schopenhauer, wrote: " Every concept originates through our equating what is unequal.
Friedrich Nietzsche criticized the phrase in that it presupposes that there is an " I ", that there is such an activity as " thinking ", and that " I " know what " thinking " is.
Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche suggested that egoistic or " life-affirming " behavior stimulates jealousy or " ressentiment " in others, and that this is the psychological motive for the altruism in Christianity.
Such theorists find narrative ( or, following Nietzsche and Foucault, genealogy ) to be a helpful tool for understanding ethics because narrative is always about particular lived experiences in all their complexity rather than the assignment of an idea or norm to separate and individuated actions.
Friedrich Nietzsche considered that " A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling ," in Human, All Too Human.
This school is associated with the names of Novalis, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Friedrich Schlegel and Nietzsche.
The German title of the book by Friedrich Nietzsche Twilight of the Idols, written in 1888 and published in 1889, is Götzen-Dämmerung, a pun on the title of Wagner's opera.
John Beverley Robinson wrote an essay called " Egoism " in which he states that " Modern egoism, as propounded by Stirner and Nietzsche, and expounded by Ibsen, Shaw and others, is all these ; but it is more.
It stars Jonatan Spang as von Trier's alter ego, called " Erik Nietzsche ", and is narrated by von Trier himself.
Further, there is no reason to be surprised when discussions such as those about the " death of God " – a concept drawn from Nietzsche – stir popular excitement as they did in the recent past, and could do so again today.
Nihilism is often associated with the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who provided a detailed diagnosis of nihilism as a widespread phenomenon of Western culture.
Nietzsche asserts that with the decline of Christianity and the rise of physiological decadence, nihilism is in fact characteristic of the modern age, though he implies that the rise of nihilism is still incomplete and that it has yet to be overcome.
Nietzsche distinguishes a morality that is strong or healthy, meaning that the person in question is aware that he constructs it himself, from weak morality, where the interpretation is projected on to something external.
This is exactly why Nietzsche states that nihilism as " absolute valuelessness " or " nothing has meaning " is dangerous, or even " the danger of dangers ": it is through valuation that people survive and endure the danger, pain and hardships they face in life.

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