FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

LIFE: 1844-1900

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

was born in the small German
village of Röcken bei Lützen,
located in a rural farmland area
southwest of Leipzig.
Professor at Basel (1869–1879)
Independent philosopher
(1879–1888)
Died on August 25, 1900
 HIS PHILOSOPHY

Friedrich Nietzsche developed his philosophy,

sometimes referred to as Nietzscheanism, during
the late 19th Century amid growing criticism of
Hegel's philosophic system. Since the dawn of the
20th Century, it has had great intellectual and
political influence around the world. Nietzsche
applied himself to such topics
as morality, religion, epistemology, psychology, ontol
ogy, and social criticism.
Nietzsche saw nihilism as the outcome of repeated
frustrations in the search for meaning. He diagnosed
nihilism as a latent presence within the very
foundations of European culture, and saw it as a
necessary and approaching destiny. The religious
worldview had already suffered a number of
challenges from contrary perspectives grounded in
philosophical skepticism, and in modern
science's evolutionary and heliocentric theory.
 HIS WORKS

He wrote critical texts on religion, morality,

contemporary culture, philosophy, and science,
using a distinctive German language style and
displaying a fondness for metaphor and aphorism.
Nietzsche's influence remains substantial within and
beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism and
postmodernism.
 SOME OF HIS BOOKS

 The Birth of Tragedy (1872)

 On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense (1873)
 Untimely Meditations (1876)
 Human, All Too Human (1878; additions in 1879,
1880)
 Daybreak (1881)
 The Gay Science (1882)
 Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–1885)
 Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
 On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)
 The Case of Wagner (1888)
 Twilight of the Idols (1888)
 The Antichrist (1888)
 Ecce Homo (1888)
 Nietzsche contra Wagner (1888) The cover for the first
 The Will to Power (unpublished manuscripts edited part of the first
together by his sister)
edition of Thus
Spoke Zarathustra.
 REFERENCES

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche#
Selected_works

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_Friedri
ch_Nietzsche

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/