Essays on Friedrich Nietzsche
In his work Human, All Too Human (1878) Friedrich Nietzsche identifies a “congenital defect” from which seemingly all philosophers suffer. In his diagnosis of philosophical activity, Nietzsche claims this defect originates from a “lack of historical sense.” Many philosophers make unwarranted assertions about “man” and human behaviour. These assertions are frequently made without any historical...
Jean-Paul Sartre belongs to the Atheist group of Existentialists. His writings examine man as a responsible but lonely being, burdened with a terrifying freedom to choose and set adrift in a meaningless universe. The main purpose of atheist existentialism is ‘God is nowhere’. Sartre is an atheist existentialist and he believes that ‘Existence precedes Essence’....
In Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche presents an unorthodox argument concerning the natural state of humankind and the means of its ultimate decline. Nietzsche claims that individuals do not allow their own natural impulses and desires to guide them, but they rather observe the guidelines of the weak majority. Nietzsche argues that a failure...
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche A poet, composer, critic and thinker, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche philosopher began his career as a classical philologist. Later he turned to philosophy. Nietzsche’s thoughts and ideas have greatly shaped the 20th and early-21st century thinkers across the world in areas of existentialism, genre and post-structuralism, furthermore as art, literature, psychology, politics and...
In this essay, I will talk about the relationship between Nietzsche’s philosophy, namely nihilism and the analysis of Albert Camus’ novel, abroad. Then I will make a brief analysis of the current situation with what has been said in the previous paragraph. To begin with, I will give a brief account of Albert Camus’ life...
