1. Why did Nietzsche find fault with Enlightenment thinkers? Why weren't they examples of "people who are strong and creative and have taken control of every aspect of their lives?"
2. Why did Nietzsche find fault with the Christian tradition? What is the distinction between good/evil and good/bad? Why does Nietzsche find democracy the extension of the Christian tradition? Why does he condemn democracy as "Christian" rather than applaud it as "Greek?"
3. What makes people distinctively human? What path (of a thousand of paths that have never yet been trodden) would take a human to that of the "superman (ubermensch)?" As Fred wrote for his question, how would you recognize a "superman" in our time?
You will take all this (and our discussion of God and language today) and include Nietzsche in your essay answer to the question: Peter Thiel (the co-founder of Paypal) argues in Zero to One that Only by seeing our world anew, as fresh and strange as it was to the ancients who saw it first, can we both re-create it and preserve it for the future. How can you apply this insight to the era of Late Modernity?
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