· 20th century Overview The twentieth century saw a remarkable shift in the way that vast numbers of people lived, as a result of technological, medical, social, ideological, and political innovations. Terms like ideology, world war, genocide, and nuclear war entered common usage and became an influence on the lives of everyday people.
Hitler used, for example, Nietzsche’s idea of the “superman” to justify his own ideas. He saw himself as a superman of sorts who could reject conventional morality because it …
The psychologists Alfred Adler and Carl Jung were deeply influenced, as was Sigmund Freud, who said of Nietzsche that he had a more-penetrating understanding of himself than any man who ever lived or was ever likely to live.
· Alfred Adler (1870-1937) developed an “individual psychology” which argues that each individual strives for what he called “superiority,” but is more commonly referred to today as “self-realization” or “self-actualization,” and which was profoundly influenced by Nietzsche’s notions of striving and self-creation.
Nietzsche’s relativism has had a powerful influence on two of the most important modern French Deconstructionist philosophers, Jacques Derrida (b. 1930) and Michel Foucault (1926-1984). ( Summary of a 1971 Foucault essay relating to Nietzsche ). Oddly enough, he has also been a powerful influence on certain theologians, ...
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) expressed his version of Nietzsche’s struggle for power in his play Man and Superman, and more than one character in the plays of Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953) is under Nietzsche’s spell.
Overcoming feelings of guilt is an important step to mental health. You can’t love someone else if you don’t love yourself. Life is short; experience it as intensely as you can or it is wasted. People’s values are shaped by the cultures they live in; as society changes we need changed values.
Like many other poets, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) combined an admiration for Blake with interest in Nietzsche.
His celebration of mortal life as a sort of religion is extremely Nietzschean. He was also became lover of Lou Andreas-Salomé, a woman who ten years earlier Nietzsche loved unrequitedly.
Besides Kanzantzakis, many novelists have drawn on Nietzsche. Thomas Mann (1875-1955) wrote repeatedly about him and his characters are often engaged in struggles to define their ideas in a world in which old philosophies are decaying, like Nietzsche, torn between romanticism and rationalism (notably in The Magic Mountain ). Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) similarly explored the necessity for the individuals to overcome their social training and traditional ideas to seek their own way ( Steppenwolf and The Glass Bead Game ).
The two grandfathers of modern psychology, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) and Carl Jung (1875-1961), both had a deep admiration for Nietzsche and credited him with many insights into the human character.
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according to Nietzsche, the sense of joy and vitality that accompanies a superior individual's clear-sighted imposition of his own freely chosen values on a meaningless world.
Neitasche's term meaning "the love of fate"; expressed as a joyous affirmation and delight that everything is exactly as and what it is
the aesthetic honor code of the overman; morality that looks only to the authentic individual for values that transcend the slave's good/evil dichotomy with glorious/degrading, honorable/dishonorable, refined/vulgar and so on; good equals noble & evil equals vulgar
Schopenhauer's theory that life is disappointing and that for every satisfied desire, new desires emerge; our only hope is detachment and withdrawl
a Freudian ego defense mechanism that attempts to prevent dangerous desires from being exposed and expressed by endorsing opposite attitudes and types of behaviors as barriers against them