the novel , when nietzsche wept , by arvin d . yalom , has efficiently manifested the ties between literature and psychology , and it was so imperssive that immadiately a movie with the same name was made that became very famous and won many awards . the writer has aimed to demonstrate the psychoneurosis treatment of two western geniuses . in this essay , attempts has been made to evaluate the ...

In his article "Nietzsche and the Knowledge of the Child at Play: On the Question of Metaphysics" Johannes Welfing raises the question of a Nietzschean metaphysical presence (did Nietzsche define the essence of life and of being and thus also implicitly establish an imperative about the way in which one should lead one's life, or did he refrain from all definition, truth, system or law whatsoev...

Culture remains a divisive issue in liberal democracies, and this article argues Nietzsche offers a principled middle ground between the conservative and progressive camps of recent and ongoing ‘culture wars’. Hence, this article challenges the ‘aristocratic’ versus ‘democratic’ Nietzsche debate by making the case that Nietzsche defended two opposed notions of culture in his early period work: ...

At first glance, a comparison between Nietzsche and Aristotle may seem improbable. If Nietzsche is indeed a moral relativist, as is often suggested, why is Nietzsche concerned with the development of human character? There are explicit instances of Nietzsche assessing the positive and negative, beneficial and injurious, traits of human character. In “What is Noble” of Beyond Good and Evil, Niet...

Although Michel Foucault’s reading of Nietzsche is involved in the reasoning of this essay, this paper does not deal with the topics most philosophers focus their attention on when they praise or severely criticize Foucault’s so-called “Nietzscheanism.” As a matter of fact, Foucault made rather scholarly use of Nietzsche. By “scholarly” I mean that he did not celebrate à la française, the famou...

Regardless of its seemingly abstract philosophical nature, historically the relation of mind and body has found a surprising variety of forms in the changing “mirror of machines” (Meyer-Drawe, 1996)—perhaps because the “invention” of abstract theorizing and knowledge coincided with the construction of tools and machines. Friedrich Nietzsche brought this articulation of knowledge and machines fa...

The ‚Nietzsche-Thesaurus’ ist part of an Internet-Portal to the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (under construction). By using the complex Index of a Citation Lexicon (print version) and combining it with the lexikal data and structure of the ‘Deutscher Wortschatz’ (Wehrle/Eggers, a kind of transformation of the Roget’s Thesaurus), a relational access system is developed. Concept and Sta...

Moral philosophers like Martha Nussbaum, Philippa Foot, and Michael Weber argue for what I call the “Neo-Stoic Reading” of Nietzsche, which includes two claims: first, Nietzsche allegedly recommends the relentless pursuit of self-interest at the expense of other persons; second, he denies empathy any major role in the ethical life. I will argue that the Neo-Stoic view misses an important unifyi...

Considered one of the most formidable and enigmatic philosophers of all time, Friedrich Nietzsche captivates his readers by weaving charismatic aphorisms of logic and emotion. Many claim his enticing presentations are too “dynamite,” focused only on the destruction of society. Disdainful of the crumbling state of his homeland, Nietzsche observes the cause of Europe’s ruins and devotes himself t...