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On the Pathos of Truth" (German: Über das Pathos der Wahrheit) is a short essay by Friedrich Nietzsche concerning the motivation of philosophers to seek knowledge as an end in itself. Nietzsche identifies this motivation with pride. [1] On this point the essay prefigures theories concerning a destructive "will to truth" that Nietzsche ...
Friedrich Nietzsche, in circa 1875. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) developed his philosophy during the late 19th century. He owed the awakening of his philosophical interest to reading Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (The World as Will and Representation, 1819, revised 1844) and said that Schopenhauer was one of the few thinkers that he respected, dedicating to him ...
However, all three functions could turn pathological, which is why they must be in balance with one another. This categorization by Nietzsche is probably the best-known content of the text and has been taken up and interpreted in many ways. In chapters 4–8, Nietzsche describes how an over-saturation with history can be hostile to life and ...
Raymond Geuss has compared Nietzsche's view of language, as expressed in this essay, to be similar to that of the later Wittgenstein's, in its de-emphasis of "the distinction between literal and metaphorical usage." [7] A few decades prior Erich Heller had similarly noted a comparison between Nietzsche's thoughts on language and Wittgenstein. [8]
Nietzsche decided that "a critique of moral values" was needed, that "the value of these values themselves must be called into question". To this end Nietzsche provides a history of morality, rather than a hypothetical account in the style of Rée, whom Nietzsche classifies as an "English psychologist" [2] (using "English" to designate an ...
Continental philosophy is an umbrella term for philosophies most prominent in continental Europe, [1] [page needed] which the contemporary political thinker Michael E. Rosen has identified with certain common themes, [2] deriving from a broadly Kantian tradition and focused on personal philosophical reflection rather than exclusively empirical inquiry.
He suggested that the work helped Foucault to discover Nietzsche as a "genealogical thinker, the philosopher of the will to power." [10] The philosopher Christopher Norris wrote that Deleuze approached Nietzsche in a way "sharply at odds with the received exegetical wisdom", and that Nietzsche and Philosophy was an "expository tour de force". [11]
H.L. Mencken produced the first book on Nietzsche in English in 1907, The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, and in 1910 a book of translated paragraphs from Nietzsche, increasing knowledge of his philosophy in the United States. [266] Nietzsche is known today as a precursor to existentialism, post-structuralism and postmodernism. [267]