In this paper I am supposed to choose an existential or nihilist thinker and apply their thoughts to the 20th century problems that we identified at the beginning of class. I’m not going to do this. What I’m going to write about is one of, if not the biggest, problem mankind has ever created for itself. Christianity. While Christianity was not on the list of problems that we identified I cannot help but …showed first 75 words of 1236 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1236 total…physical strength, here, is not the principal attribute that Nietzsche values. Rather, it is "strength of the soul," the kind of strength that comes from a lack of guilt about one's being, a wholehearted embrace of life in all its fecundity and wantonness, a will to dominate (as opposed to the force necessary to dominate), and a will to action that Nietzsche values. Life unrestrained by a life-negating slave morality is the key for Nietzsche.