Nietzsche

At the age of twenty, in October 1864, Nietzsche matriculated in theology and philosophy at the University of Bonn. Nietzsche did his best to be one of the boys. He joined a student corps, the Franconia. It is possible Nietzsche may have had an experience with a prostitute from whom he caught the syphilis which brought his life to an-end twenty-five years later.

Nietzsche began to dislike the worldly ways of the Franconia, and he submitted his resignation. He later left Bonn and attended the University of Leipzig, where he became familiar with the philosophy of Schopenhauer and his work The World as Will and Idea. Crane Brinton states: "Schopenhauer's slightly Biedermeier stoicism, though it could not for long satisfy the emotional needs of a man as God-ridden as Nietzsche, solved in this crisis and for a moment the problem of the universe . .

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d only thing to me--and not man (Nietzsche 320-321). Zarathustra views it as his duty to provide one goal for humanity, and the doctrine of the superman is to serve this function. The idea of the superman suggests that Nietzsche felt higher and higher levels of human excellence might be attained. The Superman is a limit toward which mankind approaches as the human-all-too-human approaches zero. This seems to imply a theory of creative evolution. Nietzsche has Zarathustra speak of 'the last man', who is the superman. This involves the doctrine of eternal recurrence, which states that whatever in fact occurs has taken place an infinite number of times and will happen again an infinity of times, exactly in the manner in which it happens now. Thus, there really is no 'last' man, but instead there is an infinity of last men. Energy, intellect, and pride are components of the superman. However, they must be harmonized. The passions will change into powers only when they are chosen and united by some great objective which shapes a chaos of urges into the power of a personality. B. UNBELIEF. Nietzsche found Christianity not to his taste because it creates acceptance of what he terms 'slave morality'. Nietzsche is not conce
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