FN was philosopher, author, linguist. He was born October 15,1844
in German and died August 25, 1900. During his youth his masters were
Schopenhauer and Wagner.
In Zarathustra – the work about the Persian religion founder Zarathustra
– spoke Nietzsche often about the superman, a higher race that shall
be developed out of our family that is something to strive for.
In the work “Beyond the good and evil” looks Nietzsche into
the concept the good and the evil through the history and finds two moral
standpoints.
The master moral that means that the good is the noble, prominent and
high-minded and the evil is that who is contemptible. The good qualities
are strength and independence.
The slave moral which values sympathy, humbleness and love to the next
while the strength and independence are seen to be condemned as qualities.
Through the Christianity beat the slave moral that leads to that the crowd
mentality be favoured and an individual who wants to be a master over
his own life stifle. The slave tames the master by presenting the crowd’s
moral values as true and absolute.
Nietzsche sees the desire to power as motive of life. Only a superior
answers in this affirmative by living completely and without reservation
and worry. Without trusting in a life after the death. The human is like
an animal ruled by its desires and instincts. As the slave moral has won,
the mighty is forced to direct his aggressions inwards.
Nietzsche thought that the soul has come up to be forced to oppress the
certain sides of us and instead called attention the others. That we cannot
live up we oppress either by raising or by, for example, controlling and
tolerance, - everything to keep the inexperienced in the place.
The free will is a wrong thinking that gives sense of guilt as we believe
that we can choose.
During his varying otherwise Nietzsche sees always philosophy’s
task as a legislative body for life. The philosopher shall according to
his opinion, not investigate right the reasons of the reality and then
only obey the nature; his task is instead himself to give meaning to the
life and value as well to create a new humanity.
Nietzsche had not doubt ever about his own ability and his wish constantly
to overcome himself was enormous. He used every taken position merely
as the footing for even higher. Here lies the consequence of Nietzsche’s
philosophy. Continuous strive upwards, always with own strength, without
any binding of the tradition or of the others meaning.
With the strict self-control shall the perfection of life be protected
and be struggled against every low and weak in own nature where he as
well counts the pleasure seeking as strive of usefulness.
The language in Nietzsche’s work is often beautiful and poetical.
Few contemporary authors have used the German language with such a melody
and such coloured as he. Or with such sovereign originality used its resources.
He himself has educated to a virtuoso in the aphoristic style which his
eye-illness and his nervously restlessness made a necessarily for him
to use.
For long time was Nietzsche overlooked and he was forced to publish his
work at his own expense. But when Brandes 1888 directed an attention on
him he became with short the trendy philosopher every educated person
must read. Particular the young people who in their longing for freedom
noticed his position against all the binding ties he carried on a strong
influence on them.
Nietzsche is maybe the philosopher who has most been used by the totalitarians
during1900:es especially Nazism or German. In the end of his life Nietzsche
became mentally ill and his sister choose herself to the interpreter of
his texts for her own anti-Semitic purpose. N self had no racial thoughts.
N was vegetarian and did not use alcohol or coffee.
The life consists of elements that make war with each other and elements
want to continue to be more. All the elements strength want is to be a
step higher over the other strength. In this constant and continuous strive
is to be at one with someone else, unhesitating excluded.
The love is a part of superior – the love for life’s beauty,
happiness and fate.
The degree of happiness depends on the degree of sufferings a man can
go through. The suffering become a necessity to be able to experience
the happiness. How can then the modern man see suffering as a problem
that is to be overcome, to be avoided or transcended.
To accept the life precisely as it is, to live in harmony with our fate,
calls N amor fati – a love to the fate. Amor fati is a rule of conduct
indicating of fearlessness, carelessness, energy.
The weaker wait passively for to be loved. The noble wants the suffering
shall return. Yes, he welcomes the suffering as a necessary part of the
creating process called life. The mighty loves unconditionally out of
his inner strength of richness.
