source: Human All Too Human - bbc [dvd]
(1844 - 1900)
- 'I know my fate, one day my name will be associated with something tremendous'
crisis of religious faith
death of god would give birth to something new - absolute freedom
birthpan of the modern world
- 'God is dead, and God remains dead because we have killed him, how should we the murderer of all murderers comfort ourselves?'
Philosophy is not a guide to think like him, but to think for yourself
death of god left a void where certainty once existed
Beyond good and evil
tried to make them dependent upon each other...
1847, father diagnosed brain disease.
1849 father died
1850 baby brother died
questions how god let his father suffer, doubt christianity
Parable of the madman
declared the death of god
bought up in a religious upbringing (same as Darwin, same as Van Gogh) As do i
Schopenhauer philosophy appealed to him, pessimistic at the core, recognises human experience is not very pleasant, certain ways we can accommodate this truth, Nietzsche refers to as truth as scilenous? best not to be born, second to die quickly (citation needed)
best illustrated in music Richard Wagner
sought philosophical answer to pain of existence
(became increasingly sicker)
age 30 partial invalid
major turning point 1876, opening of Wagner great opera house, Nietzsche left - illness.
last straw, relationship dwindling
The Will to power
can be read as 'self-making'
-therapy. leads on to Frued. Without Nietzsche there wouldn't be Freud
Human or too human. A book for free spirits 1878
Zarathrustra - lonely, quest for right audience
The overman, mankind is something to be overcome
His superman, hero of the third reich
1900 died from stroke
next 30 years, sister took control of his literacy state
re-edited selections...
promoted him falsely as a nazi thinker
Research further: Will to Power
Simon Johnson
www.thephilosophicalphotographer.co.uk
Friedrich Nietzsche
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