- Friedrich Nietzsche - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher and cultural critic who published intensively in the 1870s and 1880s He is famous for uncompromising criticisms of traditional European morality and religion, as well as of conventional philosophical ideas and social and political pieties associated with modernity
- Friedrich Nietzsche | Biography, Books, Facts | Britannica
Friedrich Nietzsche was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers His attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of intellects
- Nietzsche, Friedrich | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Nietzsche was a German philosopher, essayist, and cultural critic His writings on truth, morality, language, aesthetics, cultural theory, history, nihilism, power, consciousness, and the meaning of existence have exerted an enormous influence on Western philosophy and intellectual history
- Nietzsche’s Life and Works - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher of the late 19th century who challenged the foundations of Christianity and traditional morality He was interested in the enhancement of individual and cultural health, and believed in life, creativity, power, and down-to-earth realities, rather than those situated in a world beyond
- Friedrich Nietzsche - Philosopher, Existentialism, Atheism | Britannica
Nietzsche often thought of his writings as struggles with nihilism, and apart from his critiques of religion, philosophy, and morality he developed original theses that have commanded attention, especially perspectivism, the will to power, eternal recurrence, and the superman
- Friedrich Nietzsche - Philosopher, Existentialism, Atheism | Britannica
Emeritus Professor of History of Philosophy, University of Turin, Italy, 1936–76 Foremost Italian Existentialist philosopher Author of Critical Existentialism and others
- Friedrich Nietzsche - Philosopher, Writings, Existentialism | Britannica
Nietzsche’s acknowledged literary and philosophical masterpiece in biblical-narrative form, Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra), was published between 1883 and 1885 in four parts, the last of which was a private printing at his own expense
- Friedrich Nietzsche: Philosophy of History - Internet Encyclopedia of . . .
Once a prodigy in classical philology, Nietzsche’s philosophy is everywhere concerned with traditions, historical shifts in custom and meaning, and, to adapt his key expression, “how things become what they are”
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