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PHILOSOPHY - Nietzsche
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The challenge begins with how to pronounce his name.
The first bit should sound like ‘Knee’, the second like ‘cha’
Knee – cha.
Then we need to get past some of his extraordinary and provocative statements:
‘What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger’
‘God is dead! And we have killed him.'
And his large moustache.
But when we do, we’ll discover a thinker who is intermittently enchanting, wise and
very helpful.
Friedrich Nietzsche was born in 1844 in a quiet village in the eastern part of Germany
where his father was the priest.
He did exceptionally well at school and university and so excelled at
ancient Greek that he was made a professor
at the University of Basel
when still only in his mid-twenties.
But his official career didn’t work out. He got fed up with his fellow academics, gave
up his job and moved to Sils Maria in the Swiss alps
where he lived quietly, working on his masterpieces,
among them:
The Birth of Tragedy, Human, All Too Human,
The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra,
Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals,
He had lots of problems: - he didn’t get on with his family:
'I don’t like my mother and it’s painful even for me to hear my sister’s voice.’
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