Essays on Friedrich Nietzsche

Dance is an influential form of art that varies in style, presentation, and ties groups of people together. Dance consistently relays a message to its audience regardless of its type or category. One significant figure who believed that dance had a message even if one...

Is there a purpose to life? Does anything really matter? Nihilists like Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche don’t think so. In this essay, I will be exploring these two 19th century philosophers and their diverging ethics, and how exploring or even embracing aspects of nihilism...

The role of Philosophy in education is deeply rooted and the two fields are inextricably intertwined. Many a philosophers have created arguments to support the role philosophy has to play in establishing the process of education and pedagogy. Education is present in all cultures and...

In Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals essays, he made the claim that nihilism is the fact that we are “weary of man” in modern life. In this essay, I will attempt to justify his claims that modern ways of social and individual life, moral values and...

Nietzsche’s goal is to live life through love of truth, humanity and the earth. To me, this argument is profoundly convincing however, I think that this goal is shared at the core of the religions he has chosen to criticise. In this essay I would...

In Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche presents an unorthodox argument concerning the natural state of humankind and the means of its ultimate decline. Nietzsche claims that individuals do not allow their own natural impulses and desires to guide them, but they rather observe the...

Most people are familiar with the aphorism “What does not kill me makes me stronger” which originates from Friedrich Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols (“Was mich nicht umbringt macht mich stärker”). It is visible in our society that this aphorism does have several coinciding quotes...

Rousseau and Nietzsche are both prominent figures of modern Western political philosophy, even though they lived over one hundred years apart from one another. In this essay I will try to compare and contrast the idea of autonomy in Rousseau’s and Nietzsche’s political theories through...

In this essay, I will talk about the relationship between Nietzsche’s philosophy, namely nihilism and the analysis of Albert Camus’ novel, abroad. Then I will make a brief analysis of the current situation with what has been said in the previous paragraph. To begin with,...