Friedrich Nietzsche : Beyond Good and Evil

He was appointed professor at the University of Basel aged 24 having not even finished his degree.
 His evanescent philosophical life ended 20 years later when he went insane and died shortly afterwards.


Friedrich Nietzsche.


His complete rejection of Christianity, with the famous quote "God is dead", led him to be known as a remarkable philosopher in his own right, but also as a progenitor of existentialism. 
Nietzsche's 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 - it suppressed the will to power which was the driving force of human character. 


Nietzsche wanted people to throw of the shackles of our misguided Christian morality and become supermen - free and titanic. 


However, without God he felt that the future of man might spiral into a society of nihilism, devoid of any meaning; his aim was for man to realise the lack of divine purpose and create his own values. 

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