Friedrich Nietzsche and Dance

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Domgymnasium, Nietzsche next attended the prestigious and well-known boarding school Schulpforta in 1858 via a scholarship. After graduation, Nietzsche went to the University of Bonn in 1864. At this school he studied various topics like theology and classical philosophy and he composed music. He then transferred to the University of Leipzig in 1865. Although he joined the military in 1867, he received an injury and went back to Leipzig. While there, he learned about Arthur Schopenhauer’s ideas and Richard Wagner’s compositions. Nietzsche would go on to being a classical philosophy professor at the University of Basel in 1869. Nietzsche’s health took a dramatic downturn in 1870 when he helped with medical in the military and contracted dysentery and diphtheria. This illness badly affected his health for the rest of his life. Though ill, Nietzsche wrote great many great books and continued to do so until becoming mentally unstable and dying on August 25, 1900 (Magnus, 2014, ...

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concepts used in Greek tragedies. Familiar with Ralph Waldo Emerson’s works, Nietzsche was influenced by his thoughts against conformity, impulse, and free evaluation of culture (Wilkerson). A combination of bits and pieces of ideas from all these influences helped shape Nietzsche’s own philosophy and acted as groundwork for his future works.
Friedrich Nietzsche had many different views on life, religion, and morals. His philosophy had many key concepts, one of which is Apollonian and Dionysian ideas. This philosophical thought stemmed from the ideas of bad versus good in Greek tragedies. Nietzsche juxtaposed the side of order, self-discipline, and form against the side of ...

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