 Prodigy  Schopenhauer  University of Basil  Academic outcast  Mental Illness

 Sister takes control  Nazism  Modern influence

 Difficult to read some work  Playful and ambiguous  Various interpretations (Kaufman, Connolly, Foucault)  Somewhat like an acquired skill

 Birth of Tragedy  Thus Spoke Zarathustra  Genealogy of Morals  Nietzsche wrote far more than these, but these three writings represent three phases of his work and key points of his philosophy

 Master Morality Vs. Slave Morality  Dionysian vs. Appolonian  Nihilism  Blonde Beast  Will to Power “God is Dead”

 Geneology of morals  Master morality  Slave morality  Judaism

 Birth of Tragedy  Dionysian  Appolonian  Art and music  uninhibited life

 What most people think of when they think of Nietzsche  There is not objective value or meaning  Symptom of the modern world  Dissolution of Christianity

 Previously represented the lion  Represents the powerful  Can’t shun the beast for taking what he wants and exercising his superiority  Highly controversial, often used when discussing Nietzsche’s relation to Nazism

 Common drive for people  We want to obtain our highest possible station in this world  That’s okay  Natural instinct

 Nietzsche did not focus on the world beyond the mesosphere  Not necessarily one way to run Nietzsche, so we will focus on the file you have been given  Inability to accept the world as it is  If you don’t accept all of life, good and bad, you reject it, erase it’s value  Affirm life (Dionysian)

 permutation  Nazism  Nietzsche glorifies violence, racism, genocide  Anti-politics (Wolin)