Nietzsche discusses Christianity, one of the major topics in his work, at length in the context of the problem of nihilism in his notebooks, in a chapter entitled ' European Nihilism '.

Via Schopenhauer, Nietzsche discusses the " wisdom of Silenus " in The Birth of Tragedy.

") from his book On the Genealogy of Morals, Friedrich Nietzsche discusses what he terms the " ascetic ideal " and its role in the formulation of morality along with the history of the will.

Originally educated as a philologist, Nietzsche discusses the history of the tragic form and introduces an intellectual dichotomy between the Dionysian and the Apollonian ( very loosely: reality undifferentiated by forms versus reality as differentiated by forms ).

In the opening two parts of the book, Nietzsche discusses in turn the philosophers of the past, whom he accuses of a blind dogmatism plagued by moral prejudice masquerading as a search for objective truth ; and the " free spirits ", like himself, who are to replace them.

He is probably most known for his two books From Hegel to Nietzsche, which describes the decline of German classical philosophy, and Meaning in History, which discusses the problematic relationship between theology and history.

A professor at the University of Constantinople, where his first course of lectures was on Nietzsche and the `` philosophy of action '', Vincent Berger becomes head of the propaganda department of the German Embassy in Turkey.

The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche has been said to have taken nearly all of his political philosophy from Aristotle.

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 ).

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.

The thought of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche has been influential in individualist anarchism specifically in thinkers such as the French Émile Armand, the Italian Renzo Novatore, the Colombian Biofilo Panclasta, and also " translations of Nietzsche's writings in the United States very likely appeared first in Liberty, the anarchist journal edited by Benjamin Tucker ".

Another influence was the thought of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

Major influences were Friedrich Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler and, most importantly, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, the British-born German writer who was one of the founders of " scientific " anti-Semitism, and whose book The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century ( 1899 ) was one of the standard works of the extreme right in Germany.

Early German use of the term judenchristlich (" Jewish-Christian "), in a decidedly negative sense, can be found in the late writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, who emphasized what he saw as neglected aspects of continuity between the Jewish world view and that of Christianity.

Nihilism is often associated with the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who provided a detailed diagnosis of nihilism as a widespread phenomenon of Western culture.

* 1844 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher ( d. 1900 )

For example, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche argued, in the § 133 of his The Dawn, that in such cases compassionate impulses arise out of the projection of our identity unto the object of our feeling.

A group of radical socialist Australians in the 1890s voluntarily went to create a failed master-planned community, known as Nueva ( New ) Australia ; and Elisabeth Nietzsche, a German racial ideologist and sister of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche came to Paraguay in her attempt to build a colony, Nueva Germania ( Neues Deutschland ) devoted to a hypothetical pure white " Nordic " society in the 1890s.

* Hegel, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 1982 ; reissued as Hegel: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2001 ; also included in full in German Philosophers: Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997

A virtual cult following developed among such German philosophers as Friedrich Schelling, Friedrich Schlegel and Friedrich Nietzsche, who claimed that, " Thucydides, the portrayer of man, that culture of the most impartial knowledge of the world finds its last glorious flower.

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* October 15 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher ( d. 1900 )

He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1930 to 1933, during which time he fell under the influence both of the poet A. E. Housman, then Professor of Latin at the university, and of the writings of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

" In various ways, German Idealism after Kant, and major later figures such Nietzsche, Bergson, Husserl, Scheler, and Heidegger, remain pre-occupied with this problem of the justice of the metaphysical demands or urges of reason.

According to Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philologist and philosopher, and Constantine Paparrigopoulos, a major Greek historian, Demosthenes was a student of Isocrates ; according to Cicero, Quintillian and the Roman biographer Hermippus, he was a student of Plato.

In the early 1950s, Foucualt came under the influence of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who would remain a core influence on his work throughout his life.

In August 1953, Foucault and Barraqué went on a holiday to Italy, where the philosopher immersed himself in Untimely Meditations ( 1873 – 1876 ), a collection of four essays authored by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ( 1844 – 1900 ).

Nietzsche, another German philosopher, dedicated his first full-length book, The Birth of Tragedy ( 1872 ), to a discussion of the origins of Greek tragedy.

Important precursors of Expressionism were: the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche ( 1844-1900 ), especially his philosophical novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra ( 1883-92 ); the later plays of the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg ( 1849-1912 ), including the trilogy To Damascus 1898-1901, A Dream Play ( 1902 ), The Ghost Sonata ( 1907 ); Frank Wedekind ( 1864-1918 ), especially the " Lulu " plays Erdgeist ( Earth Spirit ) ( 1895 ) and Die Büchse der Pandora ( Pandora's Box ) ( 1904 ); the American poet Walt Whitman ( 1819-92 ): Leaves of Grass ( 1855-91 ); the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky ( 1821-81 ); Norwegian painter Edvard Munch ( 1863-1944 ); Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh ( 1853-90 ); Belgian painter James Ensor ( 1860-1949 ); Sigmund Freud ( 1856-1939 ).

The Übermensch ( German ) ( English Overman or Superman ) is a concept in the philosophy of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche — he posited the Übermensch as a goal for humanity to set for itself in his 1883 book Thus Spoke Zarathustra ().

Nietzsche then asserts that " the atomism of the soul " is connected with a belief in the existence of the thing in itself.

" 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 ...

" Nietzsche believed that Christianity is a conspiracy "... against health, beauty, whatever has turned out well, courage, intellect, goodness of the soul, against life itself.

In one passage (§ 34 ), Nietzsche writes that " from every point of view the erroneousness of the world in which we believe we live is the surest and firmest thing we can get our eyes on ".

Nietzsche singles out the Stoic precept of " living according to nature " (§ 9 ) as showing how philosophy " creates the world in its own image " by trying to regiment nature " according to the Stoa ".

Nietzsche warns against those who would suffer for the sake of truth, and exhorts his readers to shun these indignant sufferers for truth and lend their ears instead to " cynics " — those who " speak ' badly ' of man — but do not speak ill of him " (§ 26 ).

" Nature's conformity to law " is merely one interpretation of the phenomena which natural science observes ; Nietzsche suggests that the same phenomena could equally be interpreted as demonstrating " the tyrannically ruthless and inexorable enforcement of power-demands " (§ 22 ).

Nietzsche appears to espouse a strong brand of scientific anti-realism when he asserts that " It is we alone who have fabricated causes, succession, reciprocity, relativity, compulsion, number, law, freedom, motive, purpose " (§ 21 ).

This morality of intentions is, according to Nietzsche, a " prejudice " and " something provisional [...] that must be overcome " (§ 32 ).

Nietzsche criticizes " unegoistic morality " and demands that " Moralities must first of all be forced to bow before order of rank " (§ 221 ).

Nietzsche contrasts southern ( Catholic ) and northern ( Protestant ) Christianity ; northern Europeans have much less " talent for religion " (§ 48 ) and lack " southern delicatezza " (§ 50 ).

As elsewhere, Nietzsche praises the Old Testament while disparaging the New (§ 52 ).

In a discussion that anticipates On the Genealogy of Morality, Nietzsche claims that " Morality is in Europe today herd-animal morality " (§ 202 )— i. e., it emanates from the ressentiment of the slave for the master ( see also § 260, which leads into the discussion in Genealogy, I ).

Nietzsche also touches on problems of translation and the leaden quality of the German language (§ 28 ).

In a prophetic statement, Nietzsche proclaims that " The time for petty politics is past: the very next century will bring with it the struggle for mastery over the whole earth " (§ 208 ).