Friedrich Nietzsche

 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (/’ni/tS@[/, –tSi/] German: [’fRi/dRIc/vIlhelm 'n] (listen) or [’ni/tsS@] 15 Oct 1844 - 25 Aug 1900) was an influential German philosopher, prose writer, cultural critic and philologist , whose work has had a profound impact on modern philosophy. He started his career as a classical philologist , before moving to philosophy. He was the youngest person ever to be awarded the chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24. Nietzsche left in 1879, after suffering from health problems throughout his entire life. He wrote the majority of his primary writing during the next decade. He was 44 when he collapsed and was diagnosed with paralysis as well as vascular dementia. The rest of his life was spent with his mother, Elisabeth Forster Nietzsche, until her death in 1897. After suffering from pneumonia and a series of strokes, Nietzsche died in 1900. The most prominent elements of his thought include his radical criticism of truth in favor of perspectivism; a genealogical criticism of religious belief and Christian morality, and a theory of morality between slaves and masters; the affirmation of life's aesthetic value in response to both the "death of God" and the profund despair of nihilism; his notion of Apollonian and Dionysian forces; and a characterization of the human subject as the expression of competing wills, interpreted as the will to power. His most influential theories included the Ubermensch doctrine and the doctrine of the eternal redemption. He was more interested in the creative ability of each person to overcome cultural and ethical restrictions and seek new aesthetic values and improve their health. His work covered a broad variety of subjects, such as the fields of philology and art as in addition to music, history and religion. The inspirations he drew from Greek tragedy , and characters like Zoroaster and Arthur Schopenhauer as well as Richard Wagner and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.