He decried a scientific approach to history in his On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life, an essay included in his early volume, Untimely Meditations.
He decried a scientific approach to history in his On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life, an essay included in his early volume, Untimely Meditations. He was strongly influenced by the theories of Heraclitus, but blamed Socrates for the decline of Athenian drama in The Birth of Tragedy. His theory of eternal recurrence posited that the universe went through cycles of existence, a view praised in The Gay Science and Ecce Homo. More famous were his claim that Christianity warped classical definitions of good and bad and his call for a "transvaluation of all values", which were included in On the Genealogy of Morality. This 19th century German thinker's Beyond Good and Evil elaborates on his most famous ideas of the Will to Power and the Übermensch. For ten points, name this philosopher who wrote that "God is dead" in Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
He decried a scientific approach to history in his On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life, an essay included in his early volume, Untimely Meditations.
Friedrich {Nietzsche}