Nietzsche's ideas center on the will-to-power to escape the triviality of the society. Nietzsche argued against the "slave mentality" that permeates society causing the people to live lives devoid of joy and grandeur (ibid).
Phenomenology
Phenomenology, on the other hand, focuses on the "essential structures found within the stream of conscious experience -- the stream of phenomena -- as these structures manifest themselves independently of the assumptions and presuppositions of science" (faxed material, date, p. 174).
Edmund Husserl, who is considered as the first great phenomenologist, developed transcendental phenomenology which very purpose is to investigate the phenomena of the world without making assumptions. This requires the exclusion of one's presupposition about the existence of the external, physical, and objective world. Phenomenology's end is to be able to describe the conscious experiences of human's "lifeworld" (ibid).
Heidegger, having heard Husserl's call for a need to develop a philosophical system which understands the essences of the lifeworld, maintained that humans are only open to the things that are within their horizons, consequently the meaning of human relationships are poorly understood. This lack of insight results to living inauthentic lives. The little effort exerted by human beings to extend their comprehension leads to what Heidegger terms us everydayness. This everydayness leads to the failure of human's real potentials. Heidegger also argued against the superiority of ideas over...
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