The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) foresaw a European collapse into nihilism. In works of powerful and beautiful prose and poetry he struggled to head off the catastrophe. Friedrich Nietzsche was born on Oct. 15, 1844, in...

The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche foresaw a European collapse into nihilism. In works of powerful and beautiful prose and poetry he struggled to head off the catastrophe. Friedrich Nietzsche was born on October 15, 1844, in Röcken, a...

Virtually unknown and ignored during his productive life, Friedrich Nietzsche lapsed into insanity in the first days of 1889 and only glimpsed the beginning of his rapid ascent to fame and controversy throughout the world. By 1900 Nietzsche's thoughts...

Friedrich W. Nietzsche (1844–1900) was born in Röcken, Prussia, on October 15. He attended the prestigious boarding school at Pforta, where he was educated in the classics, literature, poetry, and the arts. He went on to study classical...

Nietzsche, Friedrich(1844 s Philosophy. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2000. Warren, Mark. Nietzsche and Political Thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,...

NIETZSCHE, FRIEDRICH (1844–1900), German philosopher and social, cultural, and religious critic. Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most remarkable, controversial, original, and important figures in modern philosophical and intellectual history....

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) (IPA: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvilhelm ˈniːtʃə]), was a German philosopher. He wrote critiques of religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive...

I FIRST READ THAT GOD IS DEAD in a tunnel on my way to class at the small midwestern liberal arts university I attended my freshman year. I had arrived there from the Houston suburbs just a few weeks before, terribly unsure of...

American philosophers consider Friedrich Nietzsche a disciple of Ralph Waldo Emerson and similar in nature to another disciple, William James. Both Nietzsche and James were pragmatists and both agreed that the Socratic era was over, although there were disagreements about post-Socratic culture. Philosophers...

Today is Saturday, Dec. 9, the 343rd day of 2006. There are 22 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Dec. 9, 1854, Alfred, Lord Tennyson's famous poem, "The Charge of the Light Brigade," was published in England.On this date:In 1608, English poet John...

Today is Saturday, Sept. 15, the 258th day of 2007. There are 107 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 15, 1789, the U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs was renamed the Department of State.On this date:In 1776, British forces occupied New York City...

Like so much else in his life, his heroic effort to finish his last novel came too late; and the luck which might have kept him alive until he had finished was not with him. He had predicted to Perkins in the middle of December that he could complete a first draft by January 15, and at the rate he was going he might have done so; on December 20 he completed the first episode of Chapter VI. The next day he had a second, fatal heart attack. By the middle of the nineteenth century …, the problem of man ...

On the morning of 3 January Nietzsche had just left his lodgings when he saw a cab-driver beating his horse in the Piazza Carlo Alberto. Tearfully, the philosopher flung his arms around the animal's neck, and then collapsed. The small crowd that gathered around him attracted Davide Fino, who had his lodger carried back to his room. After lying unconscious or at least motionless for a while on a sofa, Nietzsche became boisterous, singing, shouting, thumping at the piano. He probably thought he was clo...

The will to truth which will still tempt us to many a venture, that famous truthfulness of which all philosophers so far have spoken with respect—what questions has this will to truth not laid before us! What strange, wicked, questionable questions! That is a long story even now—and yet it seems as if it had scarcely begun. Is it any wonder that we should finally become suspicious, lose patience, and turn away impatiently? that we should finally learn from this Sphinx to ask questions, too? Wh...

A comparative essay between the beliefs of Friedrich Nietzsche and Soren Kierkegaard.

In Nietszchean philosophy there is no absolute selfhood or archetypal basis in life. Though the duality of order and chaos exists, the meaningless of life surpasses both, showing that meaningless is a greater chaos beyond the classic duality. This meaninglessness and relativity is namely the postmodern crisis. In the eighteenth and nineteenth century's, the Enlightenment was a term designated to the increasing amount of scientificic discovery's debunking religious theology.