Nietzche Advantages and Disadvantages Flashcards
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Biography
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- Born in Prussia
- Studies philology
- Has chronic health issues his whole life
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Schopenhauer
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- Inspired Wagner
- World spirit is the void, life is a dance with pessimisim
- N was his apprentice and then rejected him
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Eternal Reoccurance of the Same
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- Fully accept reality and how you got there and would will it again even though it’s arbitrary
- Gives rise to life affirmation
- Nietzche
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Nomad
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- N becomes a nomad
- Thinks better when walking through his pain
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Morality
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- Challenging conventional ideas of morality
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Truth
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- Challenging idea that we respect established truths
- Truth is not static and cannot be known as such
- Truth is terms of becoming and life
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Ubermensch
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- Last man, conditioned by context
- Embrace conditioning and critically challenge to will difference
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Later Life
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- Sister had to care for him
- She altered a lot of his works to be anti-semetic and German nationalist
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Nietzsche and History
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- Thinks it’s all dangerous nostalgia that is not life affirming
- We must recognize it’s all an accident
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Atrophying of Society
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- Contemporaries glorfiy the mediocre
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Cirtically Asessing the Moment
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- We don’t do it which does not affirm us
- Fall into immitaton and herd mentality
- Affirm old, no new creation which makes us human
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Animals and Forgetfulness
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- Jealous of this quality, hard to not be nostalgic as you age
- It helps us to learn from mistakes
- Have to know when to let go
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Balance in History
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- Need to understand when it serves us and affirm that
- Also need to recognize when it isn’t and let go
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The Void for Nietzsche
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- Have to be able to live life affirmingly
- Look into the void and be cheerful
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Ability to Act
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- Requires forgetting, not immitating, and not ruminating
- Point where you can just read the present and act accordingly
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Historical Man
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- All thinkers this semester see present as a culmination of past
- Sense they are contributing to realzing something great
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Superhistorical Men
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- Inhabit the moment but not ideal
- Culmination of the past so don’t defer to it
- Nothing means nothing and all history is the same is nihilism so unsure about if its affirming
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Nihilism
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- Can’t affirm itself, no creative energy or sense of self
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Monumental History
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- Great moment form a chain that create faith in humanity
- H’s world historical figures, can be communed with in isolation
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Men of Action
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- Need to love life to act
- Must desire an unknown future
- Love of life while recognizing absurdity
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Three Kinds of History
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- Monumental, antiquarian, and critical
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Problem with Monumental History
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- Self-satisfaction, just to service geniuses being born
- Idea that living is making your mark beyond morality
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Critique of Germany
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- Preoccupied with knowledge for it’s own sake
- Need to unify inwardness with outwardness
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Problem with Knowledge for It’s Own Sake
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- What more is there to do once we’ve reached Enlightenment
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Christianity
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- Has died, where now do we find capacity for awe and mystery
- Attributes life denial to Chrisian history and scholarship
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Greatest Weakness
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- Desire to escape suffering
- Create stories to self soothe
- Get caught up and take them too seriously
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Inconsistency
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- Embraces it because ideas are a product of life
- Humans and their ideas can change
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Antiquarian History
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- Treating the past with a sense of reverence
- Past becoming an end neglects the present
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Critical History
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- Scholars look at past to expose its weaknesses
- Must remeber our cruelty and suffering to learn from it
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Sense of Justice
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- Don’t experience it, just qual/quant it
- Virtues like justice aren’t practiced, just talked about
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Critical of Objectivity
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- Moder overestimation of the virtue of objectivity
- Can reach objective vantage point
- Lost skill to think from different ones
