Who was Nietzsche?

Contemporary German, author of a vast and controversial works.

Friedrich Nietzsche was a contemporary German philologist, poet and philosopher, author of a vast and controversial work. His books left the first signs of the emergence of contemporary philosophy.

Nietzsche gave new interpretations to certain philosophical concepts considered immutable and eternal, such as the concepts of truth, essence and force. Nietzsche defended the non-existence in several senses: of God, of the soul and of the meaning of life. For him, human beings should abandon metaphysical crutches, the so-called death of idols.

Nietzsche dedicated himself to the study of Judeo-Christian morality and carried out a kind of comparison of societies before and after Christianity, classifying it as the central factor in the weakening of human beings in the modern era, the influence that his work had on the philosophy of Deleuze, in a way inaugurating a new style of thinking in Western culture.

The Turin Horse episode was a sad event in his life. The horse case occurred in 1889, when on one occasion, while walking towards the city center, he came across a coachman mistreating his horse, cruelly whipping it. The scene hit him deeply, and he stopped the act and hugged the horse, bursting into tears.

At the age of 44, after suffering a collapse in Turin, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche received a medical diagnosis of neurosyphilis. Due to the absence of an autopsy on his body, this medical diagnosis has historically been questioned.