Richard Spencer, leading light of America’s alt-right, said in an interview last year that he was “red-pilled” by reading the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The reference is to “The Matrix”; in the ...

Friedrich Nietzsches famous line, “What doesnt kill me makes me stronger,” from Twilight of the Idols (1888), continues to resonate as a reflection on resilience and human endurance. The quote ...

There can be little doubt that Nietzsche is the most important figure in modern atheism, but you would never know it from reading the current crop of unbelievers, who rarely cite his arguments or even ...

Friedrich Nietzsche’s book Thus Spake Zarathustra begins with the protagonist, none other than Zarathustra himself, waking up one morning and realizing that 10 years of meditation have given him a ...

If you’ve read the sullen German philosopher, you might not believe that Nietzsche would have wanted you to be happy. But author Nate Anderson has done what few of us who only know the phrase “God is ...

The Big Ideas series has for several months now explored the meaning of a number of familiar intellectual phrases, among them Marshall McLuhan's "the medium is the message", Hannah Arendt's "the ...

In the first essay of Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals (OGM), he lays out his famous accusation: Christianity is the religion of the downtrodden, the bullied, the weak, the poor and the slave.

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of supreme strength, of a life of maximum vigor, which has also been called the ideal of aesthetic greatness. That life is in truth the ...

Friedrich Nietzsche quotes have lasting power. Even though the scholar and philosopher only lived to the age of 44, he left an impressive written legacy behind rife with musings and critiques.

Philosophy professor John Kaag's 2016 book, American Philosophy, was a heady mix of memoir and intellectual history wrapped up in a romantic story of a lost library and new love. In Hiking with ...