Nietzsche

“Naomi”Megan

LeBoeuf

Fritz

“The Little Minister”

Musically Inclined

Sickly

Elisabeth

Friends

Education

Elementary School

Dom Gymnasium

Pforta

Bonn University

Leipzig University

Career Military

Artillery Division (Berlin, 1867)

Medical Orderly (Alsace-Lorraine, 1870)

Professor at Basel University

Life

Wagner

Popularity

(Or Lack Thereof)

Love Life

(Or Lack Thereof)

NIETZSCHE

WAS NOTA

NAZI!!!

NOT

Final Days

Collapsed

Insanity

Syphilis?

Death

Nietzsche’s Nietzsche’s PhilosophyPhilosophy

Apollo vs. DionysusApollo vs. Dionysus

Art as a form of Art as a form of monumentmonument

Reverence of the Reverence of the pastpast

Rationality and Rationality and logiclogic

OrderOrder

Art as an Art as an experienceexperience

Focus on the Focus on the presentpresent

EmotionEmotion

Chaos and freedomChaos and freedom

Master vs. SlaveMaster vs. SlaveMoralityMorality

Focus on the Focus on the individualindividual

StrengthStrength WillpowerWillpower Concern for others Concern for others

only where it is self-only where it is self-servingserving

Morality of the strongMorality of the strong

Focus on the groupFocus on the group GenerosityGenerosity PityPity Concern for others is Concern for others is

of prime importanceof prime importance Morality of those Morality of those

unable to defend unable to defend themselves against themselves against the strongthe strong

Do you want to strive for peace of mind and

happiness? Then believe. Do you want to be a

devotee of truth? Then seek.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that

faith does not prove anything.

Faith: not wanting to

know what is true.

God is a thought who makes

crooked all that is straight.

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God

one of man's blunders?

Religion and Faith

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit

giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Nietzsche’s Problems with Nietzsche’s Problems with ChristianityChristianity

Dismissal of life as “No Good”Dismissal of life as “No Good” Idea of Original SinIdea of Original Sin Idealization of Slave MoralityIdealization of Slave Morality Emphasizes and encourages Emphasizes and encourages

weaknessweakness Christian God is no longer Christian God is no longer

believablebelievableOnly real Christian that ever existed.

Master morality is for the strong!

Only the weak require slave

morality such as Christianity offers!

Man should aspire to be the

Übermensch!

The sick are best qualified to judge

the healthy!

Ad Hominem Attacks

Socrates was wrong, plus he

was ugly!

Hegel was wrong, plus he was an idiot!

Schopenhauer was wrong, plus he was a

coward!

Wagner’s music is bad, plus he’s a

jerk!

A philosopher should be the

embodiment of his philosophy!

It is hard enough to remember my opinions,

without also remembering my reasons for them!

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence,

rather a condition of it.

There are no eternal facts, as

there are no absolute truths.

There are no facts, only

interpretations.

Justifying Contradictions

Miscellaneous NietzscheMiscellaneous Nietzsche

Amor FatiAmor Fati

Eternal RecurranceEternal Recurrance

PerspectivismPerspectivism

Moral PsychologyMoral Psychology

Understanding Nietzsche

Nietzsche wanted us:

Not to understand…

…but to react.

Philosophers of the Future!

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