Friedrich Nietzsche 18441900

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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

• Nietzsche and His Continuing Impact
• Apollonian vs. Dionysian Culture and Nietzsches
  Critique of Western Civilization
• Nietzsches Attack on Christianity as a Slave
  Religion
• The Madman and the Death of God
• Nietzsches Search for a New Morality

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The challenge of understanding Nietzsche Nietzsche
said that he wanted to say as much in ten
sentences as other people said in a book, and
that what he had to say was "what everyone else
does not say in a book." The many readings of
Nietzsche Nietzsches extraordinary impact (p. 61)
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Nietzsches Distinction Between the Apollonian
and Dionysian Styles of Culture How he used
this distinction to mount a critique of Western
civilization
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Nietzsches Attack on Christianity as a Slave
Religion

• what he meant by this
• the concept of repression
• the irrational in the sociology of knowledge

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• The Madman
• What is Nietzsche saying about
• religion
• society
• science
• morality
• the challenge of the death of god

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Nietzsches Search for a New Morality
The ideas of Nietzsche still point us to the
crucial paths toward liberation. (Collins
Makowsky, p. 80)