German philosopher and philologist (1844 to 1900) whose critique of traditional morality and metaphysics, developed across Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883 to 1885), Beyond Good and Evil (1886) and On the Genealogy of Morals (1887), introduced the will to power, the eternal recurrence and the Ubermensch, and diagnosed Christian and Enlightenment morality alike as expressions of a slave morality born of resentment. One of the most significant absences the Ethics and Metaphysics branches held before this mint.
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Notable PublicationThus Spoke Zarathustra (1883 to 1885) 2 Office HeldProfessor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel 2 Appointed Extraordinary Professor in February 1869 at age 24, promoted to Ordinary (tenured) Professor within a year, and resigned in 1879 due to ill health. TraditionGenealogical critique of morality; forerunner of existentialism 2 Connections
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Nietzsche is widely read as a formative precursor of existentialism through his emphasis on self-created value in the absence of any given cosmic order, though the atlas records Simone de Beauvoir, not Nietzsche, as Existentialism's founder on record.
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Nietzsche called Goethe the only German event and the last German for whom he felt any reverence, in Twilight of the Idols, holding him up as an image of the healthy, fully formed individual.
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1. Wikipedia: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844-25 August 1900) was a German philosopher and writer who started his career as a classical philologist and turned to philosophy early in his academic career.
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Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and Informationentry: Friedrich Nietzsche
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.
entry: Friedrich Nietzsche, Life
Nietzsche was born on October 15, 1844, in Rocken (near Leipzig), where his father was a Lutheran minister.
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- In Branch: Metaphysics
- Associated With: Existentialism, entry: Existentialism (forerunner, did not use the term)
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