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| Frederick Nietzsche |
Frederick Nietzsche is known for being one of the first men to question the meaning of life. Nietzsche attacks morality because of its commitment to standards that humans don’t have the means to maintain and he attacks the foundation of religion by saying that there is no meaning to life. He’s often associated with Nihilism (the idea that life is meaningless) because he was one of the first people who wrote about it.
However, had WWI not happened Nietzsche’s ideas never would have become popular. Nietzsche died about 20 years before the war ended but because of the horrors of WWI, the soldiers who were thinking about life after the war, and life in the trenches, it became a popular idea. Nietzsche’s philosophy didn’t come from WWI but without it his philosophy would have simply been ignored.
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