Stopping to Think

Photo by Gabriella Clare Marino on Unsplash An Overview and Interaction with the Basic Ideas of Frederich Nietzsche The Man “Frederich Nietzsche was born in rural Prussia, the son and grandson of Lutheran pastors.” A brilliant philologist, he became a professor at just 24 years old at the University of Basil. While his career was short, cut off in 1889 due to a mental breakdown from which he never recovered, he still is read as one of the most important thinkers of the 19th century, and the modern period. In this paper I want to address three aspects of Nietzsche's thought, and contrast them with a biblical perspective. These three areas are the genealogy of morals, the death of God, and the nature of humanity. Together they help display his desire to make a radical break with the assumed Christianity of his day. From Whence Come Morals? In his book The Genealogy of Morals (1887) Nietzsche “sets out to challenge our most basic assumptions, especially our notions of good and

Useful introduction to the Greek Philosophers, meatier than Sproul's Consequences of Ideas , though obviously limited to a narrower timeframe.  Not always clearly organized, which made moving quickly to grab the big ideas difficult. I will probably come back through at a slower pace at a later date, but my precis paper was due. Such is life. But this a valuable introductory work, and removed some of my hesitation toward jumping into Plato and Aristotle directly.  Read my Good reads reviews here