The Life & Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche: Timeline

Born: 1844. Rocken, Germany
Died: 1900. Weimar, Germany
Major Works: The Gay Science (1882),
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-1885),
Beyond Good & Evil (1886),
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887),
MAJOR IDEAS
Self deception is a particularly destructive characteristic of West Culture.
Life is The Will To Power; our natural desire is to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree possible.
Struggle, through which individuals achieve a degree of power commensurate with their abilities, is the basic fact of human existen…