Nietzsche-"Philosophizing with a Hammer"
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Philosophizing with a Hammer.
In philosophizing with a hammer, Friedrich Nietzsche meant that the assortment of stories that constitute the dominant representations of life and our world. This philosophy is brought forth right in his last writing, Twilight of the idols which gives a clear indication of the polemic zing feeling of Nietzsche against Wagner, who composed the opera Twilight of the Gods (Nietzsche, 1996). This is why Nietzsche brings the concern about the distinction between gods and idols.
By philosophizing with a hammer, Nietzsche is referring to “sounding out idols” with his hammer. These are the eternal idols that have the capacity to disappear in the dark. My assumption is that he had a deliberate cause of using the paradoxical expression (Nietzsche, 1996). These idols include beliefs, ideals, values and truths and Nietzsche puts criticism on them as we tent to believe that they are eternal and that seem to rule our thought and action with a kind of self justification. Through his philosophy, he has the intention of showing the historicity or the historical nature, of things that are believed to be beyond change.
When he says that he is philosophizing with hammer, Nietzsche indicates that he has confidence in whatever he is saying from his claims (Nietzsche, 1998). He tries to bring forth the validity of his claims which entails dissolution of traditional religion and metaphysics. In philosophizing with a hammer, Nietzsche indicates that he has strong points in his philosophies which need to be adopted by people due to his experience of living in time of transition as well as his thinking which is a reinterpretation that will bring a transition to a new
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Nietzsche
Philosophizing with a Hammer.
In philosophizing with a hammer, Friedrich Nietzsche meant that the assortment of stories that constitute the dominant representations of life and our world. This philosophy is brought forth right in his last writing, Twilight of the idols which gives a clear indication of the polemic zing feeling of Nietzsche against Wagner, who composed the opera Twilight of the Gods (Nietzsche, 1996). This is why Nietzsche brings the concern about the distinction between gods and idols.
By philosophizing with a hammer, Nietzsche is referring to “sounding out idols” with his hammer. These are the eternal idols that have the capacity to disappear in the dark. My assumption is that he had a deliberate cause of using the paradoxical expression (Nietzsche, 1996). These idols include beliefs, ideals, values and truths and Nietzsche puts criticism on them as we tent to believe that they are eternal and that seem to rule our thought and action with a kind of self justification. Through his philosophy, he has the intention of showing the historicity or the historical nature, of things that are believed to be beyond change.
When he says that he is philosophizing with hammer, Nietzsche indicates that he has confidence in whatever he is saying from his claims (Nietzsche, 1998). He tries to bring forth the validity of his claims which entails dissolution of traditional religion and metaphysics. In philosophizing with a hammer, Nietzsche indicates that he has strong points in his philosophies which need to be adopted by people due to his experience of living in time of transition as well as his thinking which is a reinterpretation that will bring a transition to a new