Nietzsche Flashcards
What did Nietzsche say about the end (purpose/goal) of art?
“The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat in the midst of a collapsing world.”
Nietzsche’s quotes Goldini about the great and small, saying…
“Verra un giorno che dei piccoli e dei grandi si farà nuovamente tutta una pasta.” - “A day will come when the small and the great will all be made again into one dough.”
Why do the ideas of socialistically-minded men fail in regards to civilization?
All socialistically minded men fail to understand that the unequal distribution of wealth, power, and learning are essential in a community, for the continued exercise in it of sentiments such as pity, compassion, generosity and protectiveness, which are the ingredients of the only civilization that has ever had any kind of permanence among men.
What is Nihilism
Nihilism is the philosophical belief that life lacks inherent meaning, purpose, or value. It often involves skepticism towards traditional moral and social norms, asserting that no objective moral or ethical truths exist. Nihilism questions the validity of religious, moral, and societal structures, proposing that these are human constructs without inherent significance. This philosophy encompasses various forms, including existential, moral, and political nihilism, each challenging different aspects of human existence and belief systems.
Ecce Homo meaning?
“Behold the man” John 19:5” These were the words pilate used to refer to Jesus when presenting the masses with a choice between saving him or saving Barabbas, and these are the words Friedrich Nietzsche chose as the title for his literary self-portrait.”
At the young age of 24, Nietzsche….
in 1869, he was offered a position as Chair of Classical Theology at the University of Basel
How did distortions of Nietzsche’s views become influential on National Socialist thought?
Nietzsche’s sister Elisabeth was prominent in anti-Semetic circles (in the late 1880s she helped to manage a racially pure Teutonic colony in Paraguay that her husband had founded), and after her brother’s breakdown she acquired the rights to his writings. Because of her exclusive access to his unpublished notes and her willingness to publish forgeries and corrupt versions of her brother’s works, she established herself as the leading authority over the meaning of her brother’s thought and was able to characterize his thinking as providing a philosophical basis for an anti-Semetic German nationalism. Prominent Nazi thinkers such as Alfred Bäumler made great use of these corrupt texts.
Note that Nietzsche suggested exiling anti-semites from the country in BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL (1886)
That the function which…
Renders man superior even to the Lord of Hosts Himself is the ability to hate with al his heart everything he was taught in childhood to revere in honor
