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COMPILED BY: DABO EUCLID AMMEL Arthur Schopenhauer was born in Danzig in 1788. He was a contemporary of Hegel who refused to acknowledge that Hegel was an adequate successor of Kant (Stumpf and Fieser309). Schopenhauer launched a heavy criticism on Hegel such that he asserted no philosophy during the time Hegel. Full of pride, Schopenhauer regarded the philosophy that existed between Kant and himself as “mere University charlatanism.” Although Schopenhauer gave no premium to the philosophical works of Hegel, his “principle of sufficient reason” relatively connects with Hegel’s dialectic method. The “principle of sufficient reason” sets out to provide answers to the questions “what can I know? And what is the nature of things?” (312).  These which predates the pre-Socratic era intends to present a thorough account of the whole scope of reality. Relatively to Hegel’s teleological principle, Schopenhauer “principle of sufficient reason” states that nothing is without a reason. THE...

     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...