Essays on Nietzsche

Summary

In this work, Nietzsche constantly criticized ancient thinkers who argued for dualism. According to him, the ancient Greeks were not rationalists. He goes forward t give an example of the rejection of the senses because of change and multiplicity which prompted Heraclitus to reject their testimony. According to him, dualism presented things in a way that presumed they were permanent and uniform. In practice, there is a contrast in the manner that people conceive the problem of appearance and error. Whereas in the past change and alteration were considered as a proof of appearance, this is not the case today. ...

The video, “Nietzsche on Hardship - Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness” introduces the viewers to the philosophical theory espoused by Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche advocates the belief that individuals benefit from hardship and failure. What matters is how the failure is met and how it is used to one’s advantage. One believes that the Nietzsche’s theory can be learned and practiced in one’s life. Like Nietzsche, one should look positively on sufferings because it makes a person stronger. Often, a person’s capacities and skills are put to the test when faced with challenges. After going through these ...

When a new technology is created, there are always people who believe it is a good thing and there are people who believe it is a bad thing. It is not surprising that people today have the same feelings about the Internet. Some people who use the Internet daily wonder if it is having a bad effect on our minds. For example, Nicholas Carr writes about the Internet’s bad effects in his July 2008 article in The Atlantic, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?.” The Internet can be bad for people, but it is a choice people make if it will be bad ...

In his third essay of the genealogy of morality, Nietzsche combined slave revolt, the feeling of ressentiment and the resurgence of modern reality to develop ascetic ideals. He states that “if one disregards the ascetic ideal” then human lives have no meaning. Nietzsche claims that, the ressentiment man is reluctant to permit things to build within him. The slight injuries that arise transform into a resentful hatred and he build happiness in a very long process. This man focuses on the future, thus, he is full of hope and cleverness unlike the noble man. In line with Nietzsche argument, this ...

The Tempest illustrates Shakespeare’s idea of power and how it is exercised. In the island where all the characters were brought together by the tempest, their individual desire for power and how they plan to achieve it shows how man constantly struggles to possess power and rule over others. This characteristic of man is explained in Friedrich Nietzsche’s view of power, which states that it is the Will to Power that drives man to desire control and achieve it. He explains that life is a plurality of forces striving after an increase in the feeling of power, until ...

2 Different Advertisements for Cars Today, cars have come to represent status and culture, and thanks to advertisements, one gets to see what differentiates people based on their taste. Apollo and Dionysius are prominent Gods g Greek mythology. They are both honored with distinct characteristics; creativity and personality. Apollo is known to be the noblest of all, whereas, Dionysius is a rebel and represents wild unbridled emotion. They are like the two poles; similar in structure, but miles apart in characteristics. While spontaneity is associated with Dionysian, methodology and planning is what the Apollonian man adopts. It is in ...

Introduction

This study will define some of the terms such as Rationalism Empiricism and principle of utility states. It will further discuss some of the hypotheses by the philosophers such as Nietzsche and Sartre. Rationalism is being defined in philosophy as, the analysis that regards reasons as the primary source and the knowledge analysis. Empiricism is a theory that all the knowledge of matters of facts comes from sensory experience (Locke, 1998).The principle of utility states that, both actions and behavior are correct as long as they uphold happiness and pleasure. On the other hand, actions and behaviors are ...

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is the great German thinker, a classical scholar, composer, poet, a creator of the original philosophical doctrine, which has emphasized non-academic nature and therefore is widespread far beyond the scientific and philosophical communities. The fundamental concept of Nietzsche includes specific criteria for assessing the validity, questioned the basic principles of the existing forms of morality, religion, culture and socio-political relations and subsequently reflected in the philosophy of life. As stated in the aphoristic style, most of the works of Nietzsche can not be unambiguously interpreted and cause a lot of controversies. Friedrich Nietzsche was the first person to ...

Philosophy

In his philosophy, Nietzsche appraises the origin of morality, in an attempt to recount the backgrounds of both sin as well as morals (3). Owing to the fact that basic words of ethical deeds entails several connections with nobility alongside the slavery theories; he capitalizes on the coincidence to genially sum up the difference between nobility and the slave moralities. He tailors the nobility morality on magnificence alongside the aspiration to enhance quality as opposed to inferiority, whereas the slave morality tends to proclaim ‘good’ as the absolute opposite of nobility “beauty or good.” For instance, the slave nobility ...

In chapter 2 Nietzsche makes a distinction regarding how people respond to drama and response to events in real life. The arguments present the distinction between Apollonian and Dionysian personalities. The distinction of these two personalities is crucial in gaining an insight as to how people behave in this world. The ultimate goal is to promote full awareness of oneself and the behavior of humanities. It is also vital in discovering how humanities can work for different people. In studying humanities, referring to these personalities is vital in understanding the distinction of personalities portrayed by a person According to Nietzsche’ ...

Frederick Nietzsche is perhaps among the most controversial philosopher and thinker of his time. Mostly remembers for his highly scandalous declaration that God is dead, Nietzsche explored the concept of will to power in his book The Gay Science. The concept that Nietzsche was driving at with this concept is that men by nature has that instinctive drive that urges him to insist his ways and values to other people . Nietzsche was trying to suggest that regardless of the superficial intent in one’s action, whether it is by virtue benefiting or harmful to another person, the motive of ...

Both fragments of Nietzsche's books concern two main ideas of his social theory: compassion and Christian idea of compassion. Nietzsche was quite coherent in his critics of the compassion and the enemy of the Christian church. Nietzsche was the admirer of the power over people by a certain group of people, superior men. He stressed that the will to power makes our lives more full and significant. The man is tempered in life full of adventures and dangers of struggle and tension. This excitement and risk life increases his will, and the person becomes strong and independent, proud and self-sufficient. Such ...

Nietzsche claims that the fundamental reasons for distrusting philosophy, and half-way mocking it is not because of the mistakes made or how childish the philosophical work is, but the lack of honest. The lack of honesty in handling the philosophical project leads to prejudiced work dubbed as truth. A philosopher dubs his own ideologies without strict hones and then proceeds to defend their ideas. In the search for truth, Nietzsche in Aphorism 6 notes that great philosophy is based on the truths of the originator which is the unconscious and involuntary auto-biography (Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886). He claims that ...

Friedrich Nietzsche noble human beings the best approach on human nature. Nietzsche fundamental idea is the driving force of human action; the will to power. It is the inherent will to power within humans that affirms human life and the will to live, dominate, and grow. Humans operate on the general principle of growing, domination throughout life. However, human do not live, grow and dominate at equal levels. There are inherent differences in the human society. The noble human being, therefore, is the one who advances the will to power. He who is noble honors himself as one who ...

There are unique differences between Buddhism and existentialism. The uniqueness in differences mainly depends on the metaphysical traditions with unique phenomenological methodology. In the section of ethics, existentialism and Buddhism are different on how they influence the society. Proper understanding of the elements would mainly depend on the arguments by Nietzsche and The Buddha. There are controversial arguments by Nietzsche as he tries to argue against Buddhism. The influential arguments for the two are proper definition of Buddhism. Nietzsche is the main pioneer of existentialism in the western world. He takes exclusive positions against Buddhism. He defends various ...

Since time immemorial, philosophers, scientists, theologians, and laypeople have inquired about the nature of "God" and the possibilities of a transcendent realm from both a scientific perspective as well as a religious perspective. Their answers are nebulous, as the lack of evidence of an Omniscient being, or a loving "Creator" can be construed as the absence of the ability to know this realm. Any knowledge of such a realm must be taken on faith alone, as it is not scientifically provable, which either proves that science has its limits, or that the knowledge of God operates beyond the realm of scientific empiricism -- and ...

What is the connection between the notion of SOUL and the individual’s sense of SELF-identity?

In order to find a connection between the notion of soul and the individual’s sense of self-identity, it is very important to know their definitions. Soul has been defined in various ways by religion and philosophers. It is claimed that a soul is the essence or immaterial aspect that human beings have that show their individuality and humanity. It is stated that the mind and self are synonymous with the soul (Chalmers). There are others who believe that a soul is immortal, therefore, cannot die. Individual’s sense of self-identity has been the subject of scrutiny by many philosophers. The sense ...

Friedrich Nietzsche is one of history’s foremost philosophers and philologists, often called the father of nihilism. This extends to his portrayal of women in his literary works; while he focused primarily on works of dramatic theory rather than writing stories himself, these books are nonetheless the expression of his thoughts on women as a species, particularly as they relate to the overall condition of man of which he was so concerned. Nietzsche’s own personal views on women were hardly positive, as he seems to believe that women were the essence of everything that was unreasonable and distracting to ...

Answer to philosophy questions

Judgments especially on the analytical realm, call for predicates that are wholly held in their given subjects. It relates to the fact that they never add any value to the given postulated idea of the prospective subject. It, therefore, brings out the absolute explicative nature of the latter and might be derived from the renowned non-contradiction guidelines. Those judgments that stem from the synthetic realm, in line with their own consideration relate to those with predicates that possess a unique stance from their given subjects. However, their predicates are always assumed to relate due to some genuine association with other ...

Friedrich Nietzsche was a prominent German Philosopher and was considered one of the controversial and well-read philosophers of the 19th century. His ideas about nature and morality continue being subject of debate and are majorly discussed by scholars to date. Friedrich Nietzsche dwells a lot about the issues of morality; he presupposes subjective morality as well as atheism. He argues from naturalistic point of view on how humanity is wholly responsible for the control of passions provided by nature and how religion is considered as anti-nature. People, in many occasions, have been questioning whether morality should be considered an anti-nature issue. ...

Reflection paper

Happiness in every sphere of our lives is something that every individual is trying to reach. Happiness cannot be universally defined because it is an individual feeling. Nietzsche tried to define happiness from a philosophical point of view, and frame it with recipe for fulfillment of happiness. From my standpoint, Nietzsche analyzed the feeling of happiness that appears when one accomplishes something after the long series of failures and misfortune. This is a feeling of accomplishes, satisfaction, but not a feeling of long-lasting happiness. Nietzsche’s theory can be applied as a road to success. In order for someone to become fulfilled, ...

Philosophy has been one of the defining disciplines and characteristics of Western culture. This ideology is so ingrained in the thought processes of these people that one may not realize that a particular view responds to the philosophical tradition that began with the ancient Greeks. Socrates was one of the most important of these thinkers. Therefore, as this discipline has developed, his thoughts have been both acclaimed and refuted by subsequent philosophers. Notably, Friedrich Nietzsche was very critical of this father of philosophy and many others in his Twilight of the Idols. A line-by-line analysis of a paragraph from this book ...

Demian" by Herman Hesse, portrays the Nietzschean idea .Nietzsche argues that people should not consider the idea of good or evil when they are making decisions, but transcend other metric of evaluation. “We believe that morality in the sense it has had up to now (the morality of intentions) was a prejudice, a precipitousness, perhaps a preliminary, a thing on about the same level as astrology and alchemy, but in any case something that must be overcome” (§ 32). In the Demian, it is clear that the main character, Sinclair, grew up to confirm that it is right to practice things that other people ...

Philosophy

Martin Luther King and Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche was a philosopher who was born in 1844 in Roecken, Saxony. For all accounts, he is remembered as being a brilliant man. At the age of 24 years old, without obtaining a college degree, Nietzsche became a professor of Greek at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Nietzsche is the author of such works as Thus Spake Zarathustra, The Birth of Tragedy, The Dawn, The Gay Science, and Towards a Genealogy of Morals. He wrote Beyond Good and Evil ion 1886. Friedrich Nietzsche spoke out against Christianity as depriving men of free thought in ...

The aim of this essay is to present you with a portrait of Socrates, the philosopher and teacher of Plato and other philosophers in Ancient Greece in the 4th century B.C. The portrait will be drawn upon the reflections formed by some literary pieces which provide readers with details of Socrates’ personality. The literary pieces which will be used are the ‘Republic’ and ‘Menon’ by Plato, the monologue the ‘Apology’, the painting ‘The Death of Socrates’ by Jacques-Louis David and the written piece of Nietzsche Friedrich ‘The problem of Socrates’. This portrait is rich in terms of consisting of ...

According to Nietzsche, in his book “The Problem of Socrates” Socrates is anti-life. This is as a result of the fact that Socrates never made any attempt to save his life. Nietzsche began by stating that the judgment reached by the wisest sages of all times about life is that “life is worthless. The way the western cultures traditionally interpretes the Socrates’ judgment is that it is a one-sided rationalism of the enlightenment which reaches its highest point in such trivial schemes as utilitarianism, with its bland disregard of the instinctive basis of life. This is because the curbing of ...

According to Nietzsche, a culture forms by the language, codes, institutions, narratives, and practices that affect the morality, having two perspectives named as “noble morality” and “slave morality”. Noble morality includes pride, strength, and nobility. It is adopted by a man who has strong wills and power and thus values the actions as having good and bad results. Nietzsche differentiated between the good and bad actions and their consequences that strong willed man does (Sinhababu, pp. 262). He said that good values and actions are perceived to bring positive impacts upon a person as compare to bad actions that reflect the cowardice and ...

Nietzsche and Kierkegaard are both great contributors in existentialism. Although they both fit into the category which is defined as a philosophical movement concerning the individual and how he assumes whole responsibility for his actions, their theories are quite different. They have similarities in how they arrived to their conclusions, though. Both men were raised in Christian homes, however their views on God and Christianity are very different. Nietzsche rejects Christianity and his belief of a God while Kierkgaard claims to be Christian, yet how he sees God is different in his work. Nietzsche believes that Christianity negates the meaning ...

Nietzsche’s genealogy of morality and Freud’s concept of unconsciousness offer distinct explanations for the forces that affect behavior. The relationship in their explanations perhaps lies in the fact that both of them attribute the behavioral factors in human beings to influences. However, the point of departure between the two begins with the nuanced association of the causes of the behavioral influences. While Nietzsche would have us believe that behavioral influences are a factor of social constructs of what is bad and evil, Freud on the other hand, would have us believe that behavior are a factor of internal influences ...

In Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche gives his criticisms to Christianity. As a philosopher, he presents his school of thought and accuses Christianity as a dogmatic religion with fewer benefits to all the people. This paper critically analyzes his accusations. It does this by giving critical responses in line with the Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical Deus Caritas Est. Nietzsche accused the church of poisoning erotic love by converting it into a vice. He uses excerpts from the Songs of Solomon to be a degrading manifestation of conjugal love. To him, Christianity is the worst type of self-presumption in the history ...

There are several theories of crime causation. However, this paper only focuses on two theories, the biological and sociological theories, to explain probable reasons why Leopold and Loeb committed the heinous kidnapping and murder of an acquaintance to which they both confessed. A brief summary of the facts of the case Illinois V Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb is that Leopold and Loeb, aged 19 and 18 years respectively, planned and executed the murder of Frank, a fourteen year old, by first kidnapping him. The two were from wealthy families and were not in need of the ransom money ...

Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals is considered to be one of his most important works. He is one of the most challenging figures in modern philosophy with an undercurrent arguing that Christian morality has reduced human beings to slaves of their own making. He takes the idea of the decadence of Christian morality further in ‘Beyond Good and Evil’ where he states that man must unencumber himself from all things moral and rise above such petty arguments. The master-slave axis is the main undercurrent of these works. Nietzsche argues that man is reduced to the level ...

Philosophy and Number

Philosopher Rene Descartes’ reliance on the primacy of reason over faith made him to craft his four basic rules concerning the human person (Obrien, n.d., p. 21). First, he claimed that no statement should be accepted as true without evidence. Second, he demanded the breaking down of a problem into its constituent parts. Third, he required an individual to start from the simple until he progresses to complex ideas. Fourth, he instructed a person to thoroughly and carefully record and analyze data to make certain the acceptance of the truth. On the other hand, Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche argued for a careful examination ...

According to Nietzsche, the universe is very complex that it cannot be known objectively and that there are only opinions in the universe and no facts. This is a subjective view of the universe. According to his philosophy on the will to power, which refers to the drive to perfect and transcend the self through the possession and exercise of creative power, or simply the unconscious or conscious individual desire to exercise authority of followers. According to this philosophy, the will to power is broken down into three levels. The lowest of these levels is the will to physically dominate ...

Philosophy

Ethics refers to the study of a person’s action as having moral worth, amoral bearing, or anything that has value for its own sake. In most cases, ethics binds an individual’s thought, feeling, and action in direct or indirect influence upon himself or others. On the other hand, most people regards culture as related to one’s community background (e.g., norms, traditions, mores, etc.) valued for its collective sense. In many countries across the world, different cultures and ethical understanding exist. However, the question remains as to which has come first – ethics or culture? And, how are these ...

Mill himself was educated as an adult from the age of four and he had strong beliefs that he was not raised but manufactured, he felt he was not allowed to mature but instead he was forced to mature by someone else’s action. Mill uses this point to establish that this was wrong. He believes his father should have allowed him to mature on his own so he could fully flourish; he ended up having a breakdown at the age of twenty. Mill is incredibly opposed personally to control and coercion, he feels people should be left alone to discover ...

Nietzsche’s Attitude to Religion

Introduction The German philosopher, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche is one of the greatest thinkers of the humanity, who inspired school of thoughts, philosophers, psychologists or writers in their work. His philosophy includes remarks to various social, political, economic or religious aspects. Regarding Nietzsche’s religious philosophies, the most prolific are those regarding the Christianity. This research paper proposes to capture a qualitative analysis of Nietzsche’s attitude to religion, with a specific focus on Christianity.

Body – Literature Review

According to Nietzsche’s perception, there are various attitudes on religion, depending on the social status. As such, the rulers see religion as a strategic approach to ...

Philosophy of Art

Through his book The World as Will and Representation, in which the author claimed that the world was driven by an unsatisfied will, Arthur Schopenhauer influenced a philosophy student, Friedrich Nietzsche at the University of Leipzig. Nietzsche found Schopenhauer as the best possible educator and began to convince his friends to join his new faith, where they consulted Schopenhauer’s work in every trouble that they encountered. Friedrich went further dedicate to him one of his essays ‘Schopenhauer als Erzieher’, one among his ultimate meditations, to show his appreciation. The significance of philosopher rests more on the example that he ...

I am working on trying to get the book for you 1.)This is the book where the information came from. The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth by David Bentley Hart 2.) http://www.omdix.com/pdf/docs/book_dissertation_1071115731.pdf the article by Brett Evans sche, at one time was called "the mischievous enemy of Christianity"(Bentley, p.82), came into the world with being in a family full of Protestant Clergyman on October 15, 1844. Throughout Nietzsche's younger years, everyone thought he would be going in that same direction, however, he would not be going in that same direction but ...

Gustav Klimt was an important painter in the history of art, and one of the few artists appreciated in their own lifetimes. His portrait of Adele Bach Bauer I in particular illustrates how the flow of his life’s work ran through the Victorian Age, into the Edwardian era and influenced the genres that followed. In part, due to the times in which he lived he was exposed to a world in transition. Born on July 14, 1862 in the Austrian-Hungarian city of Baumgarten during the Victorian era he studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts until 1883. ...

Thesis Proposal: The Moral of two Germans

Thesis Proposal: The Moral of two Germans

Introduction

Both men had different critiques in regard to the Christian church. Nietzsche's philosophies hated the Christian church would could explain a lot to his external criticism. Dietrich Bonhoeffer critical for the internal part of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Friedrich Nietzsche both had their own philosophies. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer believed in Jesus Christ and the rise of the church

Friedrich Nietzsche did not believe in God and was an atheist to the core.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Friedrich Nietzsche born into separate families but similar religious backgrounds. - Bonhoeffer was a skeptical about God and Friedrich Nietzsche father was godly man - Friedrich Nietzsche, at ...

If you define religion as humanity’s response to the events of existence, then there could easily be as many different religions as there are people, as each individual’s response to life can differ significantly from one another’s, even in cultures that are predominantly governed by the tenets of one religious doctrine. Consider the large spectrum that simply exists under the banner of the word “Baptist.” On one end there is the extremely social conservative Westboro Baptist Church out of Kansas, which sends organized protests to military funerals and other occasions blaming most of the evils in ...

Upon breaking down the elements of how senses gather information Rene Descartes begins to realize that all these elements also exist in dreams and it is very difficult for him to create a clear distinction between dreams and reality because they share the same elements and often you have a dream that seems real but then is justified as a dream by the act of waking. The only argument Descartes poses against the idea of the devil tricking us is that for a loving god to exist this has to be false because a loving god who created us in his image would not ...

Introduction

Nietzsche Friedrich is a German Philosopher borne in 15th October 1844.His works of art were mainly based on critics of religious studies, contemporary culture, and morality. He focused his energy on life forces. The key focus of his work was related to the objectivity of the morality of truth and values. He criticized any value that is related to the source of life .He strongly criticized morality and religious issues.

Arguments:

His argument on the “death of God “made people to criticize all his work terming them as paradoxical. He claimed that God no longer exists because the people have forgotten ...

According to the German philosopher Frederick Nietzsche ideas are as entities. They have the ability to transform themselves in unexpected ways as they are transmitted person to person, flowing and changing in the process. Nietzsche was a dedicated learner and had interest in a variety of pursuits from philosophy, poetry, music, literature. His philosophy also delved into many corners of study, from science, to religion, morality. His texts are written in sometimes-poetic aphorisms. His moustache was noteworthy. This essay endeavors to explore the development of Nietzche’s ideas and the important place in philosophy they still hold to this day. ...

Although the modern United States is known as a secular society with separation of church and state, the role of faith and churches remains strong within its citizens. That the role of the church remains strong with society would likely surprise late 19th century philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, who seemed to believe Christianity would disappear altogether in favor of the newer developments and explanations provided by science and philosophy. Throughout the 20th century and ever since, the secular nation of America has produced millions of astounding innovations, vast scientific progress, and advances in civil rights. It has been over a century since ...

Friedrich Nietzsche is well known as the father of nihilism – he began the first serious discussion about its many advantages and facets. At the time of his writings, European culture was at a standstill; the church was losing its grip on the people, who were losing sight of the tenets that it espoused. Seeing this, Nietzsche predicted the onset of nihilism among the peoples of Europe, and wondered how it would affect them. At the same time, he did not want the people to remain at a point of nihilism; he wanted to find a way beyond it, using it as a waypoint ...

Introduction and Section One

Friedrich Nietzsche’s renowned words, “God is dead,” introduce several important ideas of this philosopher. It is not a literal death he is describing, but the death of an idea and tradition. For example, in the first section of the excerpt, he describes Christian religion as “a piece of antiquity out of distant ages past,” and later wonders, “Can one believe that things of this sort are still believed in?” (110). This section of the writing calls into question the idea that a modern society, with all its new knowledge and discoveries, can still invest itself so heavily in religious belief as a ...

"PunishmentA strange thing, our punishment! It does not cleanse the criminal, it is no atonement; on the contrary, it pollutes worse than the crime does.” In this statement, Nietzsche questions the contemporary perspective on punishment, the good and evil. According to Nietzsche (a self-confessed Dionysian), punishment is a creation of the Apollonian god who alternately punishes and shows mercy, to demonstrate his power. This sets a poor precedent for modern civilization, established to nurture creativity over rationality. Unfortunately, modern civilization anchors on similar precedents. Punishment has nothing to do with reforming character and behavior; it has everything to do with making people ...

Morality is an important issue in the modern society. Lacewing (1) wrote that morality defines what is right and what is wrong with regard to our relationships as human beings. In his theme on morality, Nietzsche identified two types of morality; these are master morality and slave morality. His argument was based on the belief that in the society, morality has historical foundations and the two components have evolved and mixed up in advanced civilization. The distinction between the two classes of morality as articulated by Nietzsche is discussed below. Nietzsche referred to master morality as morality of ...

Nietzsche comment that “God is dead,” is an interesting one. By this, he implies that the decrease in importance placed on religious faith in Western society has caused, in turn, a decrease in the moral values of society. However, what he does not seem to take into account is that no moral values have been introduced to replace the old ones. The statement “God is dead” comes up in a few of Nietzsche's works, the most famous being in The Gay Science. Furthermore, the statement is now among his most well-known comments. One the one hand, it is easy to ...

ABSTRACT

The ancients knew that leading a meaningful life meant, first and foremost, finding virtue within oneself. Aristotle and Marcus Aurelius believed in a virtuous life of meaning and left blueprints for others to follow. The model they established of the secular saint stands in counterpoint to the modern incarnation of the “hero,” the media-created celebrity saint or public relations creation, whose humanism supports corporate interests or establishes a “bankable” cult of personality. This celebrity culture affected the legacy of Friedrich Nietzsche, of whom secular sainthood made a kind of pseudo-religious hero, a notion that would have been abhorrent to the great German philosopher. The ...

Friedrich Nietzsche is well known as the father of nihilism – he began the first serious discussion about its many advantages and facets. At the time of his writings, European culture was at a standstill; the church was losing its grip on the people, who were losing sight of the tenets that it espoused. Seeing this, Nietzsche predicted the onset of nihilism among the peoples of Europe, and wondered how it would affect them. At the same time, he did not want the people to remain at a point of nihilism; he wanted to find a way beyond it, using it as a waypoint ...

Abstract

In this essay I briefly attempt to draw on religious morality and essentially using the ideas of Nietzsche, dismantle them slightly to discover their relevance today. Using ideas from T.H Green I initially try to establish the religious ideas of morality and how society should work or how Christianity would like them to work and then bring this down to reality, exposing its irrationality and immaturity. Drawing finally on the conclusion that a large portion of modern society actually functions quite well without religion and the fear of the death of religion is unfounded, life would continue on the same ...

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born on October 15, 1844 and died on August 25, 1900, was great 19th century German classical philologist, philosopher, and poet. He is known for his writings on critical texts on life and mortality, religion, philosophy, contemporary culture, and science, which displayed fondness for aphorism, metaphor, and irony. His writings remain substantial influential beyond and within philosophy, majorly in postmodernism, existentialism, and nihilism. One of his writing that “God is dead,” sparked a lot of debate in both circular and religious sectors.

The statement "God is dead" appears in a number of his works; for example, in “ ...

1. Discuss Jean Watson's background, including educational preparation and process of developing her Care Theory as well as her career high points

Born in the 1940s in West Virginia, Jean Watson attended the Lewis Gale school of Nursing from where she graduated with a diploma nursing in the year 1961. She moved to the state of Colorado following her marriage where she continued with her nursing education and graduated with a Bs. in Nursing from the University of Colorado. For her M.S., she specialized in psychiatric and mental health nursing and graduated in the year 1966. She later pursued a Ph.D. in educational psychology and counseling and graduated in 1973. Afterwards, she joined the University of Colorado health sciences center’s nursing faculty where ...

“Pure philosophical writing is the anti-image.” - Agamben

In exploration of frameworks of both covert and overt manifestations of indeterminacy, these concerns are revealed, as representations, in philosophies of aesthetic iconoclasm and art, artifacts as symbolic, and modern issues related to Being and subjectivity, both of which are analogous to Nietzsche’s model of the relationship. For example, tragedy, comprised of Dionysian and Apollonian forces which combine in a chiasmic unity of oppositions, according to Professor Fred Ulfers, are characterized by Nietzsche as beautiful, singular and factual on the one hand (Apollonian), and sublime, multiple, and fictional on the other ( ...

“On The Genealogy of Morals” is a text by a German philosopher by the name Friedrich Nietzsche. In the book, Nietzsche uses a genealogical method to trace the origins of people’s different conceptions of morality. The text has three main essays; the first entitled “Good and Evil,” the second one entitled “Guilt, ‘Bad Conscience,’ and the like” and the last one entitled “What is the meaning of ascetic ideals?” This essay provides a critical response to Nietzsche’s work, specifically his book “On The Genealogy of Morals.”

One of the claims made by Nietzsche ...

1. Nietzsche in his work distinctly differentiated slave and master morality. During his time, and for conservative thinkers of today, there are traits that are considered noble and positive. These traits including meekness, humility, pity and other characteristics that might be universally defined as kind are to him, weak. This kind of thinking is what he refers to as slave morality because it is not assertive and people who think that way are not strong enough to become masters of their own world. He condemns the philosophy which embraces these characteristics. To him, a master morality is one that is opposite ...

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Introduction

Art, whether it is performing arts or the visual, has very reflective and philosophical result on the human mind. Art has inspired and shaped thousands of years of the society, as made obvious by the countless galleries, museums, venues and theaters around the whole world to the present day. The art affects each person in a different way, which is true exquisiteness of the art. The art is performed by the artists. The artists have used different mediums as a mode to influence opinion of the people all through the history, for both gracious and crooked reasons. ...