This is the first few pages I wrote: Historic interpretation of Twilight of the Idols
Freidrick Nietzsche is an iconic philosopher of the modern pre-modern era; he representshis works reflects the transition period between scattered Germanic states to the hub of culture and economy: The the German EmpireSecond German Empire. The uprising of Germany, yethowever, was proclaimed in his writing as catastrophe and problematic. His view of that historical event can be seen as the missing piece in a puzzle of culture. This dissertation The issues German have decribed by Nietzche inis an interpretation of Nietzche’s Twilight of the Idols, which mirrors German philosophy, culture and the world power today . Nietzche’s philosophical approach comprises both critical confrontation and backed by content , or “how to philosophize with a hammer.” Neitzsche’s radical opinion ofn philosophy and morality demonstrates a forgotten missing culture under the unbridled optimism in the future of science and knowledge. He took the Christianity, nationalism, and anti-Semitism that dominated Germany under the leadership of Prussian Chancellor Bismarck at the time as signs of a degenerate culture lacking positive value, as he describes, “the overpowering pressure of outflowing forces (finale) forbids him any such care or caution”.
During this new age of an uUnited Germany, the industrial revolution modernized the German economy, which led to the new era of German dominance in Europe . German universities became the hub of science and the humanities. The common man became very aware of the privilege of making money. Moreover, the underclass recognized the social implication of successful trade and enterprise . Formerly, for the common man, getting rich for the common would have only existed in a dream . As the momentum of gathering wealth built up, the old values were gradually losing ground, for people are more in line with the materialistic world and regard it as “idols ”. As Nietsche depicts, “Not necessity, not desire-no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let the have everything- health, food, a place to live, entertainment-they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied .” This societal change played across the social spectrum. For instance, in The Twilight of the Idols, Nietsche portrays that the German traded in freedom to economic wellbeing. “found marriage…can be founded on the property drive, which continually organizes for itself the smallest structure of domination-to an attained measure of power, influence, and wealth.”(p37 ) Because of the gradual organized structure of “tyranny” freedom were was lost, and left behind are empty or hollow beliefs, which can be “sounded out” with the philosopher’s hammer . The issues in the change in culture, philosophy and education indicated by Nietsche is are essentially a depiction of the environment of the time, which illustrates and represents the lost of culture and moral of individuals . This then becomes Nietsche’s mantra in encouraging the German not be get lost, “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself .
