PHIL 115 Lecture Notes - Untimely Meditations, Sociality, Human Nature
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His last 11 years of life were spent in insanity and he did not write a word after january 1889. Torino, italy: he suffered a completely irreversible psychological breakdown. He was mildly lucid for a short period of time afterwards. There was a caricature of nietzsche: hitler used some of his writings to further his political ends. In this part of the world, nietzsche started to be seen as a forerunner of nazism. However, he would ve despised nazism, nationalism, and anti- He was also purported as a madman without restraint in his writing. This was partially due to his unhealthy life, both physically and/or psychologically. Twilight of the idols (1888): towards the end of his sane life, he wrote 4 books feverishly. First book: the birth of tragedy (1872): of ancient greek culture/tragedy. Greek culture was his purported high point of civilization. Born in rocken, prussia as one of 3 children to a lutheran cleric.
