Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

Major work

•          Zarathustra

Importance

•          German philosopher

•          Famous atheist

•          Power of the individual he called “superman”

•          Virtues of Christianity are weak and must be abolished

•          Held there is no absolute truth

•          Some view him as the father of postmodernism

•          Spent last 11 years of life as a vegetable

•          His views important today; he influenced Derrida