Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: his name brings with it the destruction of traditional, secular values

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: his name brings with it the destruction of traditional, secular values, see, immediately, the dissident par excellence, the desecration of the moral and noble intellectual and academic dominant. Nietzsche, in fact, as he liked to call himself, mist was, no doubt, following the formulation of his concepts irreverent and out of any scheme moral and conventional dynamite more explosive and destructive in the history of the entire thought mist and the total culture human. He not only has, through his brilliant and innovative genius dissident, undermined the solid foundation of positivism bourgeois era and built new concepts mist and ways of thinking, but created a new philosophy, destined, in the following years, to be widely recovery and popularized by influential intellectuals (one among all the timeless poet Gabriele D'Annunzio): the philosophy of vitalism, of human dynamism, the philosophy of the Superman.
Nietzsche was born on October mist 15, 1844 in a small town in eastern Germany, Röcken, by Carl Ludwig Nietzsche, mist a Protestant minister from politics rather reactionary and pro-monarchist (the name Friedrich, in fact, seems to have been chosen in honor of King Frederick William IV of Prussia, who, on the day of birth of our philosopher was preparing to celebrate his forty-ninth birthday) and Franziska Ohler. mist In 1849, when the little Friedrich has only five years, takes a dramatic event in his life, destined, perhaps, to mark his personality for him to come, her father died, because of a brain disease or, as he says, of "softening of the brain." Later, mist he started his high school, where, already in these early youth, emerge his passion for music and linguistics in general and also with the spirit of desecration, revolutionary and unconventional, of profound impatience in place against the companions and towards teachers. In 1864, completed the cycle of high school, the early twenties Friedrich Nietzsche, is recognized by the mother to the faculty of theology at the University of Leipzig, with the hope that one day his son would follow in the footsteps of her deceased husband pastoral mist . But, as will be easily understood, mist for a man who, later, will say that "God is dead! "Theological mist studies and career in the church are not, properly, their address existential, in fact, the following year, faculty changes, starting to take courses in classical philology at the same university. In the years of Leipzig, Nietzsche, it will form solidly its philosophical culture and the structure of thought that will make him the undisputed genius of his time, reading major works revealing as The World as Will and Representation of compatriot Arthur Schopenhauer. In 1869, only twenty-four, just graduated, was called to the chair of classical philology at the University of Basel, and in recent years, meanwhile, know also the musician Richard Wagner, establishing a close friendship with him. In 1872, then, it is published one of his most famous works The Birth of Tragedy, in which, using his deep greek-classical training, performs an analysis of the socio-historical evolution of the greek world and the inherent decadence entire culture arose following the birth of the artistic and literary form of the tragedy, presenting the famous concepts mist of "Apollonian spirit" and the "Dionysian spirit". 1883 is, however, the highest excellence of German genius, mist the work outlined in greater measure the intellectual contribution of the thinker, intended mist to impose, through its alternative character and imaginative, its extraordinarily innovative and revolutionary concepts mist Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra).
It is in this work, in fact, that appear the most profound concepts of the thought of Nietzsche, like the eternal return and the death of God, but, above all, of the superman or, rather, the overman. It is in this paper, in fact, that the "crazy" hermit Zarathustra, leaving the social isolation speculative returns between the common man, declaring, first, the aforementioned death of God (symbolizing the cancellation, in