BACKGROUND Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), one of the most profound and influential modern philosophers, suffered since his very childhood from severe migraine. At 44 he had a mental breakdown ending in a dementia with total physical dependence due to stroke. From the very beginning, Nietzsche's dementia was attributed to a neurosyphilitic infection. Recently, this tentative diagnosis has beco...

Nietzsche famously discusses a psychological condition he calls ressentiment, involving toxic, vengeful anger. I offer free-standing theory in philosophical psychology of the familiar state aptly described with this term. In process developing my account, chart terrain around ressentiment and closely related sometimes overlapping states (ordinary moral resentment, envy, vengefulness, anger, lik...

Abstract Perhaps the most fundamental disagreement concerning Nietzsche's view of metaphysics is that some commentators believe Nietzsche has a positive, systematic metaphysical project, and others deny this. Those who it hold believes special problem, is, distinctively problematic feature distinguishes from other areas philosophy. In this paper, I investigate important features metametaphysics...

Nietzsche’s criticisms were directed against what he reckons as the progressive ‘moral’ disintegration of late 19 century Germany. He described morality as “the doctrine of the relations of supremacy (Herrschafts-Verhältnissen) under which the phenomenon of ‘life’ comes to be.” This definition, however, is broad and mired in ambiguity, and as will be pointed out later, escapes multitudinous ‘mo...

Nietzsche, throughout his writings, chides other philosophers for not placing their question marks at a deep enough place – for breaking off their inquiries prematurely, rather than pressing their questions all the way to the end, allowing themselves to discover where their questions, if pressed, might eventually lead1. In one of his posthumously published manuscripts, the following series of q...

No part of this work may be reproduced by print, photocopy or any other means without the permission in writing from the publisher. Dit proefschrift is goedgekeurd door: Prof. dr. W.J. Briels (promotor) " Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. "-Friedrich Nietzsche

Discussions and remarks about Jews and Judaism can be found throughout Nietzsche’s writings, from the juvenilia and early letters until the very end of his sane existence. But his association with antiSemitism during his lifetime culminates in the latter part of the 1880s, when Theodor Fritsch, the editor of the AntiSemitic Correspondence, contacted him. Known widely in the twentieth century fo...

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