Nietzsche is unusual among philosophers in that he doesn’t really tell us what he thinks. So what were Nietzsche’s views, exactly? Well, that is still up for debate. Our introductory course distills Nietzsche’s best and most misunderstood ideas, from God is dead to the Übermensch. Learn everything you need to know about Friedrich Nietzsche in just six days. Introduction to Nietzsche and His 5 Greatest Ideas: Bite-size Course Even enjoying a resurgence in popularity, however, Nietzsche’s philosophy remains commonly misunderstood, misread, and misappropriated by those from all over the political and philosophical spectrum. Thankfully, the truth of Elisabeth’s tampering emerged - as did letters and earlier works evidencing Nietzsche’s fierce opposition to nationalism and anti-Semitism - and his character has since been reformed and his ideas reexamined. For a long time, therefore, Nietzsche’s ideas were synonymous with those of Nazism. Elisabeth warped Nietzsche’s unfinished works into a bloodthirsty call to arms for nationalist Germany, which ultimately became the blueprint for Hitler and his 'superior' Aryan race. However, it wasn’t always this way: after suffering a mental breakdown in 1889, Nietzsche and his works came under the care of his sister, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, who was a bigoted anti-Semite. Known and regularly quoted for his dazzling and often controversial turns of phrase (like his declaration that God is dead, for instance, or his vision of the Übermensch, or his presentation of the eternal recurrence, or any other of the 97 clever Nietzsche passages and quotations we’ve collated here), Nietzsche’s reputation in the English-speaking world is now arguably the highest it’s ever been, and his place in philosophy’s canon looks assured. Friedrich Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher who, though hardly read during his own (sane) lifetime, has become a dominant intellectual force in today’s popular culture.
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