Friedrich Nietzsche

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Aphoristic work on happiness, philosophy, and affirmation of existence

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche

German philosopher who declared the death of God, celebrated the will to power, and proposed the Übermensch as humanity's goal beyond slave morality. His aphoristic, poetic style and his attacks on Christianity, nihilism, and democracy made him the most influential and most misread philosopher of the modern era. He was insane in his last eleven years.

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