By: Darrell Willis & Erik Hamilton Edited by: Dr. Kay Picart and Brett Ader Friedrich Wilhelm “Fritz” Nietzsche Student Edition

Friedrich Wilhelm “Fritz” Nietzsche Born October 15, Named after the Prussian king, Friedrich Wilhelm IV. From a family of Lutheran ministers. Father died when Nietzsche was 4 yrs old. Brother died six months later at the age of 2.

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Friedrich Nietzsche Moved to Naumburg Started “Germania” 1864 University of Bonn 1865 University of Leipzig Published essays on –Aristotle –Theognis –Simonides

Duty Calls Required Military service at age 23 Chest injury sends him back to the University

First Book His first book – The Birth of Tragedy – Published when he was 28

Biographical Information Resigned from the university in June, 1879 from health problems such as :  migraine headaches, eyesight problems and vomiting resulting from his service as a hospital attendant during the Franco- Prussian war in

Biographical Information Wandered around Europe from Wrote Thus Spoke Zarathustra ( ) during this time. On the morning of January 3, 1889, Nietzsche experienced a mental breakdown which left him an invalid for the rest of his life. Upon witnessing a horse being whipped by a coachman at the Piazza Carlo Alberto, Nietzsche threw his arms around the horse's neck and collapsed, never to return to full sanity. Died on August 25, 1900, 56 years old, from pneumonia and a stroke.

Extra Side Notes Influenced by Schopenhauer, F.A. Lange Metaphysical speculation is an expression of poetic illusion. He was not influential in his time.

Often referred to as one of the first “existentialist” philosophers. Existentialism is: »_________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________

Towards a Genealogy of Morals The cause of the origin of a thing and its use are altogether separate. Punishment has two separate sides. 1. _________________ ___________________. 2. _________________ ___________________.

Nietzsche refers to this higher mode of being as “____________" (_______________), and associates the doctrine of eternal recurrence -- a doctrine for only the healthiest who can love life in its entirety -- with this spiritual standpoint, in relation to which all-too-often downhearted, all-too-commonly- human attitudes stand as a mere bridge to be crossed and overcome. The imagery here is probably borrowed from "The Allegory of the Cave" in Plato's Republic.

We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know, or believe or imagine, precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish. --Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche was able to write prolifically and profoundly for years, while remaining in a condition of ill-health and often intense physical pain. It is a testament to his spectacular mental capacities and willpower. Lesser people under the same physical pressures might not have had the inclination to pick up a pen, let alone think and record thoughts which -- created in the midst of striving for healthy self-overcoming -- would have the power to influence an entire century.