PHIL 115 Study Guide - Self-Denial, Eternal Return, Equal Opportunity
4 Apr 2013
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Friedrich nietzche 1844-1900 twilight of the idols (1888, year before he went insane) Very much expected to become a protestant cleric (father and grandfathers were ministers) Only influence he notes is arthur schopenhauer, influence is minor. Trying to do something radically new, such as the way in which he writes. Prior to his breakdown, he was sane (or enough), his writings are not blemished with his insanity. Why he chooses to put things in the ways that he does, it is thought out. (not that he doesn"t have the discipline to put it together) Wrote rather quickly, but he thought about every single word he ever wrote. Formal philosophical treatise- one author, lists premises, tries to generate some conclusion from those premises. For the most part, the average treatise is a rather sober document. Cultural physician- philosophers ought to be physicians of their culture, a modern secular counterpart to a prophet.
