Unveiling the Brilliant Mind of Friedrich Nietzsche: A Creative Genius and Visionary

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Discover the captivating brilliance of Friedrich Nietzsche, the enigmatic philosopher who dared to challenge conventional thinking. Join me as we delve into Nietzsche's profound ideas and explore the depths of his visionary mind. Prepare to be inspired and enlightened as we unravel the secrets behind his transformative philosophy. Don't miss out on this eye-opening journey into the genius of Nietzsche!

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Nietzsche, that lone genius we associate with the powerful artistic and philosophical texts such as Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and the Gay Science to name a few.

Where did he get such genius from? Was he born like this?

Interestingly, there is a theory that looks at the possible origins of extreme creativity or creative genius as coming from early parental death. A study of 699 eminent individuals found that 45% of them had lost a parent before the age of 21. Such examples of so called Geniuses who had parental problems or early parental death are Da Vinci, Newton, Beethoven, Van Gogh, Bach, Copernicus, Darwin, Camus, and even Steve Jobs. The idea is that adversity (causes from parental loss or problems) produces cognitive flexibility and results in creativity as a defence to help them solve problems in the future. Although, counter ideas are that more intelligent people have children at later ages and are therefore more likely to die while the child is younger. These are purely correlational studies but they are nonetheless, interesting as Nietzsche falls into this profile having his father die when Nietzsche was only 4.

Young Nietzsche made two school friends named, Wilhelm Pinder and Gustav Krug.

The eminent Nietzschean scholar and translator R. J. Hollingdale out lines what Nietzsche was like in his younger years. In his book, Nietzsche: The Man and His Philosophy, Hollingdale writes:

"Although he was no child prodigy, his intellectual and artistic ability was evident from the first, and it was no matter for surprise when he was awarded a free place at the famous Pforta school." - R. J. Hollingdale, Nietzsche: The Man and His Philosophy, Page 14.

Later Hollingdale also writes:

"He was precocious intellectually but not precociously original, and he was 34 before his earliest work of consequence, Human, All Too Human, appeared. The earliest work of all - the poems and other writings of his Naumberg years up to 1858 - is, indeed, strikingly unindividual: subject-matter and treatment are conventional, and there is a notable absence of the kind of spontaneity revealed by many a far less talented child in his first attempts." - R. J. Hollingdale, Nietzsche: The Man and His Philosophy, Page 16.

Nietzsche, although being intellectually advanced as a child, was yet to display the magnificence we see in his later works.
Nonetheless, these earlier periods were where Young Nietzsche practiced his craft of writing, which in turn, formed a preparation for his life's work.

Between the years 1855 to 1858, Nietzsche lists a selection of 46 poems that he composed, and it is estimated by Hollingdale that he wrote about 100 of them. Nietzsche, being a writer at heart wrote in his youth, 'In any event, it was always my design to write a little book and then read it myself.' page 17 - Aus meinem Leben (1858)

Nietzsche also wrote two short plays on classical subjects in collaboration with a friend from school called Wilhelm Pinder, and the beginning of a novel that he was going to call Death and Destruction.

In 1858, Nietzsche divided his poetic productions into three periods, the earliest was filled of natural descriptions and dramatic events, the second was where he sought to bring more form and measure to his writing, and the third where he made a conscious effort to combine the passion from the early writing with the form and structure of the second period.

These attempts at artistic production were the seeds of practice that were to shape Nietzsche's writing ability.

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Let us explore Friedrich Nietzsche's captivating brilliance!

[danielzavalahuerta]

I can’t believe I have a found a person that has interests almost identical to mine, never thought it would happen 😂
Thanks for the video

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I enjoyed this a lot. Keep up the good work

[dlloydy]

Really enjoyed this. Very interesting. He certainly had an ability to persist. Back to the old nature vs nurture debate however, only one of them do we have any control we have the will.