Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Submitted By: bmoore44
  • Date Submitted: 11/30/2008 10:07 PM
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Friedrich Nietzsche

This research paper will discuss the thoughts and contribution of Friedrich Nietzsche. He was the great philosopher of history and very well known musician also. This research paper will also focus in detail about his features research, works and ideas to western thought in the context of history.

Introduction:
Friedrich Nietzsche was born in 1844. His father died very early when he was only four years old and spent his childhood with his mother, sister and grandmother but in 1858 he joined boarding school. After completing his boarding school he studied theology and classical philology at the University of Bonn and abolished to Leipzig where he motivated by Kant Schopenhauer and well known composer Richard Wagner. In 1869 when he was only 24 years old he was appointed as a chair in philology at Basel. After then he introduced his vast ideas in Greek life and distinction between Apollonian. He died in 1900.

Salient and prominent features:
Friedrich Nietzsche was a great philosopher than a musician although that he was the composer of some extent but he had also written on the directions and purpose of music. But he was famous as a philosopher than a musician. His talent of music was showed by him in his teen age as he had written many compositions in teen age. In his education and activities he was strongly motivated by his family, her mother, sister and grand mother. In 1858 he removed to the boarding school of Germany. There he also did well but poor Nietzsche became the victim of migraine headache and this goes through his whole life. In between 1861 to 1864 he became most likely expert on piano. His classical philology period was started when he joined the Bonn University.
There he studied classical theology and philology. At that time he was already being skeptical of many ideas of religious that he had taught at his youth age. Nietzsche's studies were interrupted due to the military duties but he return to the university...

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