Friedrich Nietzsche Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis of Nietszche and Self Creation.

Friedrich Nietzsche Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis of Nietszche and Self Creation.
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Nietszche and Self Creation

Summary: 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.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth century's, the Enlightenment was a term designated to the increasing amount of scientificic discovery's debunking religious theology. With humanity's loss of their once certified objectivity, the individual and his society sunk into the chaotic realm of insecurity revealing the seeds of a postmodern world. The German philosopher Nietzsche, deeming "God is dead", saw the collapse of these collective truths of objectivity, showing the meaningless of the universe. Hence he located meaning and truth to be relative to the individual with his ability to surpass his chaotic existence through the will to power.

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. When an individual abandons...

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