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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher with a Hammer · Philosopher · 1844–1900

The German philosopher who declared God dead, invented the Übermensch, and wrote the most electrifying prose in philosophy.

Defend these ideas against Nietzsche

Incandio is a free revision platform for the Pearson Edexcel International GCSE, and on it a topic counts as mastered only once you have learned it, proved it in questions, taught it back and defended it against the person with the strongest claim on it. Friedrich Nietzsche is that person for 5 topics on the course:

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• The meaning and purpose of life — Religious Studies · Buddhism

Explore the life of Nietzsche — five chapters

1. The Little Pastor — A dead father, a house of women, and a professorship at twenty-four
2. Wagner — A friendship, a first book, and a public break
3. God Is Dead — A madman with a lantern, in daylight
4. Where Morality Came From — Masters, slaves and resentment
5. Turin, and What His Sister Did — Eleven silent years, and a forged philosophy

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