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Friedrich Nietzsche

How much do you know about Nietzsche? Do you see any influence today from what he began years ago?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher of the late 19th century who challenged the foundations of traditional morality and Christianity. He believed in life, creativity, health, and the realities of the world we live in, rather than those situated in a world beyond. Central to Nietzsche's philosophy is the idea of "life-affirmation," which involves an honest questioning of all doctrines which drain life's energies, however socially prevalent those views might be.
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Nietzsche believe in the lack of a universal truth. Truth was simply a mass amount of metaphors fixed into an invented truth to create conventions and beliefs for a practical purpose. Thus truths about people, government, and even religion where only constructed to a practical useful end and would fade away when the end no longer existed or a better convention was invented. Morality is simply a contruct of society based on current social beliefs and evolved through time as thought patterns change. Thus morality is not stationary and a truth, but an every changing metaphorical substance that can be manipulated to practical ends. Nietzsche also believed that earth existed eons before humanity came along and when humans die off, we will mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. Its much harder to see his influence in todays world in which morality and religion and government are such hard coded issues in the minds eye of humanity. These ideas of him are still looked down upon by many. I however, am not one of them.

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Comments: How did Friedrich Nietzsche go from being a son of a pastor to a staunch atheist?

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Faith means not wanting to know what is true.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

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"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche