 Born on 10/15/1844 in Röcken bei Lützen  Named after Prussian king  Suffered from migraines  Father, uncles, and grandfathers are Lutheran Ministers  His father and brother died around when Freidrich was five  Attended University of Bonn to study theology and philology

 Schopenhauer introduced him to atheism  Played music and was forced to join the military  Resigned as professor at Basel due to deteriorating health  Moved constantly from  In 1889 Nietzsche lost sanity forever › around the same time of his brothers death › Saw a horse being whipped? › Various assumptions: syphilis, inherited disease?  Died on 8/25/1900 at the Villa Silberblick

 “God is Dead” › Men no longer need God › Stop faith/dogma › Deception of life’s meaning › Creation of “Superman”  Superman: › Embrace life › Reject values  Amor Fati: › Fears despair, pessimism, and chaos › You must accept meaninglessness

 Eternal Recurrence: › Would you be happy to know that you were reliving the exact same life for an eternity? › Thought experiment; not a truth › Change your life, or love it  Truth: › No truth, only perspective › Does our view of the world matter? › Language is important to describe our perspective

 The Will to Power › Subjective or objective interpretation › Either he believes that our experiences are beyond the physical › Or he wants people to think about this concept  Paternal image of women and slaves

 Critic amongst lemmings  Not as influential to English speakers › Like many prophets, not accepted in his time › Poorly translated  Sigmund Freud: › Seek explanation for accepted beliefs › Look into animal instincts  French philosophical circles: › Motivators of power = critique establishment

 Hitler and Mussolini: › Sister encourages them to select certain writings that were interpreted to support war and domination › Misinterpretation  Affected people in a wide spectrum: › From dancers to historians: › Example: Albert Camus: The Stranger  “I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.”

 Political reorganization  Thought Democracy kept extreme thinkers down › Unification in Germany and Italy  “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” › Nationalism, socialism, and liberalism in Europe › Russia frees the serfs  “Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit”  Free Thinker: admired uniquely Strong people

 Decline in religion › Darwin’s discoveries in evolution › Marx says it’s the Opium of the masses  Writing centered around religion  Grew up in a Lutheran family  Traditional in views  Distrusted modern establishments  Should be life enhancing; reguardless of truth  Inspired  “Faith: not wanting to know what is true.” 

 Various Russian Wars: › Russo-Swedish war (take Finland) › Russo-Turkish war (take Bessarabia) › Russia invaded by Napolean › Crimean War › Russo-Persian war (take Armenia)  Nietzsche fears stifling individuals through singular authority

 Misunderstood: vegetarianism, anarchism, Nazism, and cultism  Nihilism: accept the fate that there is merely a world and interpretations of it are false › Eternal Recurrence: would you be happy living your life for eternity? › Amor Fati: be happy with a nihilist conclusion  Ubermensch: People that think outside the box will progress society

 Until I present again in the next stage of the Eternal Recurrence