Articles for tag: Beyond Good and Evil, Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nietzsche

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Nietzsche and Dostoevsky: Hypotheses on Human Nature and Societal Attacks

Both Friedrich Nietzsche and Fyodor Dostoevsky existed at the epicenters of churning changes in thought and contributed to the forward movement of ideas by provoking further philosophical progress. Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil is described as “one of the most remarkable and influential books of the nineteenth century” on its back cover, and Dostoevsky’s Notes ...

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Friedrich Nietzsche’s Moral Philosophy: A Summary

In Beyond Good and Evil, one of Friedrich Nietzsche’s most famous works, he condemns the popular moral philosophy of his day. He denies that traits such as pity, humility and meekness are universal virtues. In fact, Nietzsche goes on to call a philosophy that deems such traits to be universally good one of “slave morality;” ...

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The Basics of Nietzsche’s Morality

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is one of the most controversial philosophers in history. Many philosophers regard him as a top tier thinker, a more intellectually respectable Ayn Rand-type advocate of selfishness and egotism that academics don’t have to be embarrassed to admit they agree with. On the other hand there are at least as many philosophers ...

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Freud and Nietzsche on Human Nature. Etc

While it can be said that Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud offered virtually identical views of human nature and of the society in which they lived, it must be stated that they lived in different societies, and that their views, while somewhat identical, were both prophetic and antithetic in the eras in which the two ...

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Explaining Nietzsche’s Superman

The Superman (Der Übermensch) is a concept primarily associated with the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Richard Roos defined it as: The Superman of Nietzsche is a god on earth. It should not worry about men, nor the government’s. The Superman in Nietzsche’s thought In the philosophy of Nietzsche, the concept of Superman is linked to ...