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Friedrich

 Nietzsche

Life  and  work  

WHY  ARE  YOU  ALIVE?  


!
KARIM  BENAMMAR
1.  Friedrich  Nietzsche  (1844  –  1900)
• Born  1844,  father  pastor  
• Studied  Classics  philology  
• Professor  of  philology  in  Basel,  
Switzerland,  at  age  24  
• Health  problems,  retirement  from  
university,  wandering    
• The  Birth  of  Tragedy  1871  
• Human,  all  too  human  1880  
• The  Gay  Science  1882  
• Thus  spoke  Zarathustra  1884  
• Beyond  Good  and  Evil  1886  
• The  genealogy  of  Morals  1887  
• Mental  breakdown  1889  
• Dies  1900
2.  Friedrich  Nietzsche  –  Ideas

• Apollonian  and  Dionysian  values  


•  “God  is  dead”  
• Revaluation  of  all  values  
• “Good”  and  “bad”  versus  “good”  
and  “evil”  
• Breaking  idols  with  a  hammer    
• The  over-­‐man    
• The  Will  to  Power  
• Truth  as  perspective  
• The  eternal  return  
• Saying  “yes”  to  life:  amor  fati
Friedrich  Nietzsche

Life  and  work  

WHY  ARE  YOU  ALIVE?  


!
KARIM  BENAMMAR

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