{"id":220452,"date":"2022-10-10T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=220452"},"modified":"2022-09-29T09:23:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T08:23:38","slug":"friedrich-nietzsche-15-oct-1844-25-aug-1900-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/10\/friedrich-nietzsche-15-oct-1844-25-aug-1900-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Friedrich Nietzsche (15 Oct 1844 \u2013 25 Aug 1900)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_64695\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Friedrich-Nietzsche3.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64695\" class=\"wp-image-64695 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Friedrich-Nietzsche3-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Friedrich-Nietzsche3-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Friedrich-Nietzsche3.jpg 353w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-64695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Photos.com\/Jupiterimages<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Friedrich Nietzsche,\u00a0\u00a0(born October 15, 1844,\u00a0R\u00f6cken, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Saxony-state-Germany\" >Saxony<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Prussia\" >Prussia<\/a> [Germany]\u2014died August 25, 1900,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Weimar-Germany\" >Weimar<\/a>, Thuringian States),\u00a0German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/culture\" >culture<\/a>, who became one of the most-influential of all modern thinkers. His attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/religion\" >religion<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/morality\" >morality<\/a>, and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/philosophy\" >philosophy<\/a> deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights. He <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/thought\" >thought<\/a> through the consequences of the triumph of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/Enlightenment-European-history\" >Enlightenment<\/a>\u2019s secularism, expressed in his observation that \u201cGod is dead,\u201d in a way that determined the agenda for many of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Europe\" >Europe<\/a>\u2019s most-celebrated intellectuals after his death. Although he was an ardent foe of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/nationalism\" >nationalism<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/anti-Semitism\" >anti-Semitism<\/a>, and power politics, his name was later invoked by fascists to advance the very things he loathed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/10\/friedrich-nietzsche-15-oct-1844-25-aug-1900-6\/\" >TO READ FULL BIOGRAPHY CLICK HERE PLEASE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friedrich Nietzsche\u2019s attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights. He thought through the consequences of the triumph of the Enlightenment\u2019s secularism, expressed in his observation that \u201cGod is dead.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":48864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[900,2167,642,308],"class_list":["post-220452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biographies","tag-biography","tag-friedrich-nietzsche","tag-literature","tag-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}