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| | Friedrich Nietzsche EB article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Friedrich Nietzsche, a 19th-century German philosopher and writer, was one of the most influential modern thinkers. |
 | | His attempts to unmask the root motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights. |
 | | His paternal grandfather had published books defending Protestantism and had achieved the ecclesiastical position of superintendent; his maternal grandfather was a country parson; his father, Carl Ludwig Nietzsche, was appointed pastor at Röcken by order of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, after whom Friedrich Nietzsche was named. |
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