1. By: Korey Carroll, Peyton Bonner, and Caylin Grant
Friedrich Nietzsche
By: Korey Carroll, Peyton Bonner, and Caylin Grant

2. Biographical Information
Born October 15, 1844
Attended a private prepatory school in Namburg, then boarding school
At age of 23, entered in military service close to Naumburg, during this time he lived at home with mother
Swiss university offered him a professional position, began teaching there in May, 1869, at age of 24

3. Spiritual history & Point-of- view
Did not believe in Christianity and rejected idea of it
Says people made up Christianity to “lighten our hearts”
Once said, “ After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave- a tremendous, gruesome shadow. God is dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. -And we- we still have to vanquish his shadow, too” (Nietzsche's The Gay Science, s.108, Walter Kaufmann transl.).

4. Philosophers existential/ aesthic Point-of-view
Argued that the Christian system of faith and worship was not only incorrect, but harmful to society because it allowed the weak to rule the strong
Wanted man to create his own values
Contribution to existentialism was idea that men must accept that they are part of a material world, regardless of outside opinions

5. Ethical Point-of-view
Nietzsche claims that we have no free will and hence we have no moral responsibility
His positive ethical views are best understood as combining a kind of perfectionism as Nietzsche's implicit theory of the good, with a conception of human perfection involving both formal and substantive elements.
Takes neither his positive vision, nor those aspects of his critique that depend upon it, to have any special status.

6. Influences
Richard Wagner served as a mentor to Nietzsche, he convinced Nietzsche that the genuine creation was still possible and that inspired Nietzsche
Arthur Schopenhauer inspired aesthetics which influenced Nietzsche, Nietzsche later tried to redraw the boundary between aesthetics and ethnics.
Richard Wagner
Arthur Schopenhauer

7. Bibliography
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Kemerling, Garth. "Nietzsche." Nietzsche. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Oct
"Project MUSE - Nietzsche's Affirmative Morality: An Ethics of Virtue." Project MUSE - Nietzsche's Affirmative Morality: An Ethics of Virtue. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Oct