Chapter16

Question 1

What is modernity and its accompanying “diseases?”

Answer 1

historical period of 19th century and a corresponding set of cultral conditions and beliefs dominated by Enlightenment ideals.

Question 2

What is tragic optimism and how is it used to overcome the pessimism of Schopenhauer?

Answer 2

the sense of joy and vitality that accompanies the superior individauls clear sighted imposition of his own freely chosen values on a meanigless world.

Question 3

Define will to power and how Nietzsche thinks it has worked throughout history and continues to work today.

Answer 3

Will to power is the ache for more. we have tried to overcome death, and we use science and religion to gain power.

Question 4

How is Nietzsche an anti-philosopher? What is nihilism and how does it fit into Nietzsche’s being an anti-philosopher.

Answer 4

he disputes the possibility of objectivity ! Universe lacks meaning and purpose ties into his atheistic beliefs. Philosophy is trying to help people find meaning.

Question 5

What did Nietzsche mean when he said, “God is Dead?”

Answer 5

the idea of god has lost its full creative force.

Question 6

Describe an overman and an underman using Nietzsche’s concepts of slave morality and master morality?

Answer 6

“higher type a more than human being that will emerge only after overcoming false ideals
Underman person who cannot face being in a world without god.
s;ave morality: a system based on guilt and fear
master morality: century by century the values of the “herd” are weakened. the code of the overman.

Question 7

Describe what Nietzsche means by amor fati?

Answer 7

love of fate. everything is exactly as it

Question 8

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Answer 8

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Question 9

pessimism

Answer 9

life is meaningless. a world like this was bound to randomly occur. We just have to have the will to live.

Question 10

tragic optimism

Answer 10

life is meaningless and pointless. and because of this we try to find meaning, and who we are, and so we turn to other sources to define us. we should create ourselves and our values.

Question 11

will to power

Answer 11

we all have a desire to control others and impose value upon them. ( and ourselves)

Question 12

there are no perspectivless perspectives

Answer 12

there is not way to be unbiased

Question 13

nihlism

Answer 13

what modernity is leading to. nothing . there are no objective facts or values.