PHIL 115 Lecture Notes - Religious Text
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Strong christian upbringing, father was in the clergy. Expected to follow in his father"s footsteps. Both his father and his brother passed away while he was young. He was raised by his mother and had a troubled relationship with his sister. Never earned much notoriety within his life. Worked in a teaching position in sweden for ten years until he took his permanent medical leave. Never had a real home moved around a lot due to medical reasons and never had much of a romantic life either. He had a purposefully excessive, literary, rhetorical writing style. Nietzsche believed philosophy was the personal confession of the individual thinker . He is very particular about expressing his ideas as his ideas. Twilight of the idols addresses the issue of a lack of conviction among the then current citizens. The name of the book is in reference to the setting of the sun on convictions.
