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Hegel is the most influential of the three major German Idealists after Kant (the others are Johan Fitche and Friedrich Schelling). He achieved wide renown in his day and, while primarily influential within the continental tradition of philosophy, he also became increasingly influential in the Analytic tradition as well. Hegel has influenced many thinkers and writers whose own positions vary widely like, Karl Barth described Hegel as a “Protestant Aquinas”, while Maurice Merleau- Ponty wrote that “all the great philosophical ideas of the past century- the philosophies of Marx and Nietzche, Phenomenology, German existentialism, and psychoanalysis had their beginnings in Hegel.  Hegel’s influenced was immense both within philosophy and in the other sciences. Throughout the 19th century many chairs of philosophy around Europe were held by Hegelians, and Soren Kierkegaard, Ludwig Feuerbach, Marx, and Friedrich Engels- among many others were deeply influenced by, but also strongly oppos...

     Friedrich Nietzsche was born on October 15, 1844, in Rocken bei Lutzen, Germany. In his brilliant but relatively brief career, he published numerous major works of philosophy, including Twilight of Idols and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. In the last decade of his life he suffered from insanity; he died on August 25, 1900. .His writings on individuality and majority in contemporary civilization influenced many major thinkers and writers of the 20th century.  He is known with his concepts “God is death,” a rejection of Christianity as a meaningful force in contemporary life, “will to power” and his concept of “superman” or “overman. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE’S PHILOSOPHY GOD IS DEAD Nietzsche wrote philosophy in a manner intended to provoke serious thoughts than to give formal answers to questions. His notion of God is dead has been literally misunderstood. Following the political and military unrest in his time, Nietzsche sought to address the situation but...