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on Friedrich Nietzsche, the book cover and back page text, links to other
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Chapter
Twenty Seven: Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a profoundly influential German
philosopher, psychologist, and philologist. He was a severe critic of Christianity,
Utilitarianism, German idealism, German romanticism, and of modernity in
general. One of Nietzsche's central concepts is the will to power (Der Wille
zur Macht), a process of expansion and venting of creative energy that he
believed was the basic driving force of nature. He believed it to be the
fundamental causal power in the world, the driving force of all natural
phenomena and the dynamic to which all other causal powers could be reduced.
That is, Nietzsche in part hoped will to power could be a "theory of
everything," providing the ultimate foundations for explanations of
everything from whole societies, to individual organisms, down to mere lumps
of matter. In contrast to the "theories of everything" attempted
in physics, Nietzsche's was teleological in nature.
Nazi Germany often viewed Nietzsche as one of their "founding fathers."
They incorporated much of his ideology and thoughts about power into their
own political philosophy (without consideration to its contextual meaning).
Although there exists some significant differences between Nietzsche and
Nazism, his ideas of power, weakness, women, and religion became axioms
of Nazi society. The wide popularity of Nietzsche among Nazis was due partly
to Nietzsche's sister, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, a Nazi sympathizer
who edited much of Nietzsche's works. It is worth noting that Nietzsche's
thought largely stands opposed to Nazism. In particular, Nietzsche despised
anti-Semitism (which partially led to his falling out with composer Richard
Wagner) and nationalism. He took a dim view of German culture as it was
in his time, and derided both the state and populism.
Nietzsche spent the last ten years of his life insane and in the care of his
sister Elisabeth. He was unaware of the growing success of his works. The cause
of Nietzsche's condition is undetermined. ... (see book for more)
There is nothing more necessary than truth, and in comparison with it everything else has only secondary value. This absolute will to truth: what is it? Is it the will to not allow ourselves to be deceived? Is it the will not to deceive? One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.
What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?
Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.
He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
Was it not for you the glacier today exchanged its gray for roses? The brook seeks you; and wind and clouds press higher in the blue, longingly they crowd aloft to look for you. For you have I prepared my table in the highest height - who lives so near the stars as I, or who so near the depths of the abyss? (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Philosophical
SketchesA lively and concise journey through the central
ideas of thirty famous philosophers. From ancient Indian, Greek and Chinese
Philosophy to modern Western Philosophy, this book explores the changing
foundations of human knowledge and their effect on how we think and live.
Includes full page portraits, brief biographies and selected quotes from
some of the greatest minds of human history on the universal subjects of
Truth, Reality, Nature, Cosmos, Wisdom, Morality, Mind, Education, Politics,
Art, Religion & God.
Written for the lay person, while remaining true to the original ideas, this
is an engaging account of the Metaphysical foundations of Philosophy that is
both illuminating and thought provoking. (Cover Photograph: Plato & Aristotle
- The School of Athens by Raphael)
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We also have a nice philosophy web page on Friedrich Nietzsche;
http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Philosophy-Friedrich-Nietzsche-Philosopher.htm
"When
forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time
and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter. ... Physical
objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially extended.
In this way the concept 'empty space' loses its meaning. ... The particle
can only appear as a limited region in space in which the field strength
or the energy density are particularly high. ...
The free, unhampered exchange of ideas and scientific conclusions
is necessary for the sound development of science, as it is in all spheres
of cultural life. ... We must not conceal from ourselves that no
improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe
struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something
is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided.
...
Humanity is going to need a substantially new way of thinking if
it is to survive!" (Albert Einstein)
Our world is in great trouble due to human
behaviour founded on myths and customs that are causing the destruction
of Nature and climate
change. We can now deduce
the most simple science theory of reality - the wave structure of matter
in space. By understanding how we and everything around us are interconnected
in Space we can then deduce solutions to the fundamental problems of
human knowledge in physics,
philosophy, metaphysics,
theology,
education,
health, evolution
and ecology, politics
and society.
This is the profound new way of thinking that Einstein
realised, that we exist as spatially extended structures of the universe
- the discrete and separate body an illusion. This simply confirms the intuitions
of the ancient
philosophers and mystics.
Given the current censorship
in physics / philosophy of science journals (based on the standard
model of particle physics / big
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