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Philosophy Class Essay

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Philosophy Class Essay

Born: 1844.  Rocken, Germany

Died: 1900.  Weimar, Germany

Major Works: The Gay Science (1882),

Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-1885),

Beyond Good & Evil (1886),

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887),



MAJOR IDEAS



        Self deception is a particularly destructive characteristic of West Culture.

        Life is The Will To Power; our natural desire is to dominate and reshape the world

to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree possible.

        Struggle, through which individuals achieve a degree of power commensurate with

their abilities, is the basic fact of human existence.

        Ideals of human equality perpetuate mediocrity -- a truth that has been distorted and

concealed by modern value systems.

        Christian morality, which identifies goodness with meekness and servility is the

prime culprit in creating a cultural climate that thwarts the drive for excellence and self

realization

        God is dead; a new era of human creativity and achievement is at hand.

-- Great Thinkers In The Western World.

By: Ian P. McGreal, 1992







PREFACE



Much information is available on Mr. Friedrich Nietzsche, including many books that he

wrote himself, during his philosophical career.  I took this as a good sign I would find a

fountain of enlightened material produced by the man.    I've had to go through a bit of my

own philosophical meditations to put my own value judgements aside, and truly look for the

contributions Nietzsche gave to philosophy.  Much of my understanding came only after I

had a grasp of Neitzsche's history; therefore, I encourage you to read-up on his history

before diving into his philosophy (see Appendix I).  The modern Westerner might disagree

with every aspect of his philosophy, but there are many things one must unfortunately

admit are true (only if you put your morality a...

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