UTM112H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ancient Greek Literature, Antichrist, Industrial Revolution
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We demand meaning from the universe and our lives but the universe gives us none. We need to find meaning from this absurd existence. From a small town in germany that is controlled by prussia (rising superpower at the time) Lived close to the birthplace of the protestant reformation. Nietzsche expected to follow in his footsteps. Comes to reject christianity along with some of the central ideas of western civilization. Also questions reason and science as a way to arrive at truth. Becomes a philologist (the study of words and development over time) Context: the new world created as the result of the industrial revolution. Criticizes culture/modernity in the wake of the death of god. No objective sacred category by which to criticize value. Modern industrial society has produced the last man. The last man is a nihilist, does not believe in anything. He is constantly bored and only wants security (the mentality of the herd morality)
