Bilar National High School

Yanaya Bilar Bohol

INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN PERSON

(Performance Task)

Madelyn Magtibay (GAS11-Sora)

Friedrich Nietzsche. ORIGIN

Born on 15 October 1844, Nietzsche grew up in

the town of Röcken (now part of Lützen), near
Leipzig, in the Prussian Province of Saxony.
Nietzsche’s father was a Lutheran minister. His
father died in 1849, and the family relocated to
Naumburg, where he grew up in a household
comprising his mother, grandmother, two
aunts, and his younger sister, Elisabeth.

Personal Background

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher and cultural critic who
published intensively in
the 1870s and 1880s. He
is famous for
uncompromising
criticisms of traditional
European morality and
religion, as well as of
conventional
philosophical ideas and
social and political pieties
associated with
modernity. Nietzsche also used his psychological
 analyses to support original theories about the nature of
the self and provocative proposals suggesting new
values that he thought would promote cultural renewal
and improve social and psychological life by comparison
to life under the traditional values he criticized.
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KEY Philosophies

This entry has focused on broad themes pursued throughout Nietzsche’s

writing, but most philosophically sophisticated commentary on his work has
been devoted to the explication of certain core doctrinal commitments, which
Nietzsche seems to rely upon throughout, but which he does not develop
systematically in his published works in the way typical for philosophers. Some
of these doctrines, like the idea of the eternal recurrence of the same, are
described as “fundamental” by Nietzsche himself (EH III, Z, 1), but are
formulated in surprisingly cryptic or metaphorical ways—and discussed, or even
mentioned at all, much more rarely than one would expect given the
importance Nietzsche placed on them. Others are alluded to more frequently,
but raise theoretical questions that would normally call for careful philosophical
development that is largely absent in Nietzsche’s books. Commentators have
therefore expended considerable effort working out rational reconstructions of
these doctrines. This section offers brief explanations of three of the most
important: the will to power, the eternal recurrence, and perspectivism.

The will to Power

Nietzsche explored the idea of the will to power throughout his career,
categorizing it at various points as a psychological, biological, or metaphysical
principle. For this reason, the will to power is also one of Nietzsche's most
misunderstood ideas.
One particular form of the will to power that Nietzsche devotes much attention
to is what he calls “self-overcoming.” Here the will to power is harnessed and
directed toward self-mastery and self-transformation, guided by the principle
that “your real self lies not deep within you but high above you.”
Perspectivism
Nietzsche challenged traditional notion of truth, morality, and values.
Perspectivism argues that all truth claims are contingent on, and the product of,
a person’s perspective. This philosophy attacks the concept of essential truth
and seek to destabilize the concept of universal morality.

Important Quotation

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

(To live is to suffer, as life in itself is innately suffering. But because life is
suffering, we should find a cause, an ideal to suffer for so the others that
precede us shall suffer less.)

This quote help us to be reminded every day that in every situation that we
suffer daily. There is a meaning of it that we need to know and understand so
that we can suffer less.

Something new

1. He was named after a king. Friedrich Nietzsche was born on the 49th
birthday of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia. Fredrich Wilhel IV was the song
of and successor of Frederick William III of Prussia. He assumed the name of the
king and added his surname Nietzsche. Later though, Friedrich dropped the
middle name Wilhelm.

2.He was hoping to become a minister.He wanted to be authorized by the

church to perform functions such as teaching of believes and leading of services
such as weddings, baptisms, and funerals. Due to the ange of his mother he
stopped his theological studies and his hopes were shuned.