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Nietzsche

Nietzsche

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A German thinker from the 19th century who wrote about the will to power
  • proper noun
  • /ˈniːtʃə/
: Nietzsche
  • Many scholars consider Nietzsche a pivotal figure in modern philosophy, especially for his concepts of the 'will to power.'
  • Nietzsche's philosophy
  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • according to Nietzsche

Which of course was what Nietzsche did himself.

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Examples

  • Theme three, we will read Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morality.

  • For example, take-- take Nietzsche's old line: "If you stare into an abyss, it also stares into you."

  • And you know, Nietzsche, I talk about Nietzsche in the book.

  • That is what Nietzsche says truth consists in.

  • Now, this is the collision that Nietzsche talks about.

  • But according to Nietzsche, the struggle between master and slave morality is not over.

    Academic text (1999)
  • You know what Nietzsche says: Even the strongest have their moments of fatigue.

  • What are the moral consequences of wanting and valuing what Nietzsche was to call "more life," whatever the cost?

    Academic text (1999)
  • In order to found social science, what was needed was Nietzsche's experimental substitution of "values" for truth.

    Academic text (1993)
  • So, what does Nietzsche mean when he says, "The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness, the greatest enjoyment is to live dangerously!

Synonyms

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A German philosopher who criticized religion and traditional moral values and wrote about a superior person

is the common short form of the same name

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Etymology

Nietzsche is a German family name that comes from an old form of the given name Nicholas. So Nietzsche simply identifies the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche as his last name.