Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1844-1900. Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher who reasoned that Christianity's emphasis on the afterlife makes its believers less able to cope with earthly life. Nietzsche argued that the ideal human being, the Ubermensch, would be able to channel passions creatively instead of suppressing them. Nietzsche's written works include Beyond Good and Evil and Thus Spake Zarathustra. Nietzsche is a major player in the Realm of Existentialism.
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existentialism and Friedrich Nietzschedied Aug. 25, 1900, Weimar, Thuringian States
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence . . . and loathing seizes him. --Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, b. Oct. 15, 1844, d. Aug. 25, 1900, was a German philosopher who, together with Soren Kierkegaard, shares the distinction of being a precursor of Existentialism. Nietzsche studied classics at the universities of Bonn and Leipzig, receiving his doctorate from the latter in 1869. Because Nietzsche had already published some philological articles, he was offered the chair of classical philology at the University of Basel in Switzerland before the doctorate was officially conferred on him. |
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