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Nietzsche a současnost / Nietzsche and today

This diploma thesis deals with Friedrich Nietzsche philosophy, especially his two works - The Birth of Tragedy and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The first work, The Birth of Tragedy, was chosen, because it is author's first work and it built the basis for writing of his work Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The second work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, was chosen, because it is the most important work from the philosophical point of view. The goal of the thesis is to examine both of these works and focus on Nietzsche's most important thoughts. The first work, The Birth of Tragedy, connects four important influences - the first is cultural interest that manifests itself on the artistic level through encounter of two elements - Apollonian and Dionysian, the second influence is the attempt to grasp the Greek antiquity in a new way in contrast to classicist insisting on the Greek harmony, the third is Shopenhauer philosophy and the last one is almost divine respectability to Richard Wagner, who was Nietzsche's loyal friend. The second work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, shows in itself in the form of aphorisms, legends and myths the basis thoughts of Nietzsche's philosophy - death of God, nihilism, the will to power, the creation of "Übermensch", eternal return and the critique of mass culture. The work is not a collection of...

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:369270
Date January 2017
CreatorsHlídková, Veronika
ContributorsHogenová, Anna, Jirásková, Věra
Source SetsCzech ETDs
LanguageCzech
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess

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