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Friedrich Nietzsche


Some call the father of the Nazi party. Was
Nietzsche's ideas twisted and warped by a needy country? Nietzsche himself
despised the middle and lower class people. Was it Nietzsche's Will to Power
theory that spawned one of the greatest patriotic movements of the twentieth
century? These are some of the questions I had when first researching
Friedrich Nietzsche for the following paper.
Friedrich Nietzsche, at one time called "the arch enemy of
Christianity"(Bentley, p.82), was born into a line of Protestant Clergyman on
October 15, 1844. During Nietzsche's early years, he gave no indication that he
would not follow in his families' clergy tradition. As a boy, ...

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to an exclusive boarding school at the nearby
Schulpforta Academy. The school was famous for its grandeur of alumni that
included “Klopstock and Fichte”(Brett-Evans, p.76). “It was here that
Nietzsche received the thorough education in Greek and Latin that set him upon
the road to classical philology.”(Brett-Evans, p. 76) On many occasions
Nietzsche's zeal to prove himself at the Pforta school spurned legendary tales.
One certain tale is when Nietzsche “could not bear to hear of the courage of
Mucius Scaevol, who did not flinch when his hand was burnt off, without seizing
a box of matches and firing them against his own hand.”(Bentley, p.84) At the
age of twenty, Nietzsche left to attend Bonn University. By this time Nietzsche
had come to think of himself as an “aristocrat whose great virtues are
fearlessness and willingness to assume leadership.”(Bentley, p.85) Ironically,
Nietzsche planned to study theology(to please his mother). At this time
Nietzsche no longer ...

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