What is Friedrich Nietzsche?
{{Infobox philosopher |color = #B0C4DE |image = Nietzsche187a.jpg |birth_name = {{nowrap|Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche}} |birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1844|10|15}} |birth_place = [[Röcken, Saxony]], [[Prussia]], [[German Confederation]] |death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1900|08|25|1844|10|15}} |death_place = [[Weimar]], [[Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach]], [[German Empire]] |alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|[[University of Bonn]]|Leipzig University}} |region = [[Western philosophy]] |era = [[19th century|19th-century]] philosophy |school_tradition = {{unbulleted list|[[Continental philosophy]]|[[Existentialism]] {{smaller|([[Nihilism|anti-nihilism]])}}|Perspectivism|[[Realism]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Conway|first=Daniel|year=1999|chapter=Beyond Truth and Appearance: Nietzsche’s Emergent Realism|editor-last=Babich|editor-first=Babette E.|title=Nietzsche, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Science|series=Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science|volume=204|pages=109–122|publisher=Springer|location=Dordrecht|doi=10.1007/978-94-017-2428-9_9|isbn=978-90-481-5234-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Doyle|first=Tsarina|year=2005|chapter=Nietzsche's Emerging Internal Realism|title=Nietzsche on Epistemology and Metaphysics: The World in View|pages=81–103|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=9780748628070|doi=10.3366/edinburgh/9780748628070.003.0003}}</ref>}} |workplaces = [[University of Basel]] |main_interests = [[Aesthetics]], [[classical studies]], [[ethics]], [[history]], [[moral psychology]], [[ontology]], [[tragedy]], [[value (personal and cultural)|values]] |notable_ideas = {{collapsible list|title=<nowiki/>|{{unbulleted list|{{lang|la|Amor fati}}|Apollonian and Dionysian|Eternal recurrence|[[God is dead]]|Herd instinct|[[Master–slave morality]]|[[Übermensch]]|Perspectivism|Will to power|''Ressentiment''}}}} |influences = {{flatlist| *[[Fyodor Dostoevsky|Dostoevsky]] * [[Ralph Waldo Emerson|Emerson]] * [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe]] * [[Heraclitus]] * [[Immanuel Kant|Kant]] * [[Plato]] * [[François de La Rochefoucaul