Hermann Ebbinghaus was born in Barmen‚ Germany on January 24‚ 1850. Ebbinghaus’ father was a rich merchant‚ and he encouraged Hermann to go to a University. At age 17‚ Ebbinghaus started his education at the University of Bonn studying history and philosophy‚ later he studied at the Universities of Berlin and Halle. He stopped his studies and served for the Prussian army in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. After the War he continued and finished his doctoral degree in Philosophy at the University
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Essay on Marx and Engel’s Communist Manifesto Throughout Marx and Engle’s Communist Manifesto it is clear that the two display a disposition against the Bourgeoisie‚ but why is this? From the very first page it is clear that Marx has a strong belief in the hierarchical arrangements of the classes as he opens the manifesto with “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles” this sentence in itself is a powerful statement. Marx believed that‚ Capitalism‚ which was
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Nietzsche was a German philosopher who had a substantial influence on Western philosophy. Through his writings‚ he has a wide span of radical ideas. Nietzsche believes that language is all metaphorical‚ and that it is “dying.” Also‚ he professes that “God is dead‚” and has a basis of thought which helps revolutionize the 19th and 20th centuries completely for the Western people and civilization today. Nietzsche professes in “The Gay Science” and also “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” that “God is dead.” “God
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Phil 355 24 September 2013 Conforming to the Crowd: The Face of the Faceless Since the beginning of time‚ humanity sat in the desperate dwellings of their own thoughts cursed to misunderstand all they could ever be. Unrealized potential‚ if you will‚ which dangled in front of their collective selves‚ much like the notorious forbidden fruit that existed in plain sight just hanging slightly out of reach. As humanity rode the ebb of time‚ they endeavored to contemplate that which they could never
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1 Zarathustra in Nietzsche’s Typology Yunus Tuncel In this essay‚ I present a reading of Zarathustra as a type within the context of Nietzsche’s typology which permeates his works from the first to the last; I claim that there is a line of thought in Nietzsche’s philosophy‚ despite the many turning points in it‚ which pertains to types and which I call typology.1 This typology culminates in Thus Spoke Zarathustra which is considered a work of typology‚ for the purpose of this presentation
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The acknowledged Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis uses his novel‚ Zorba the Greek‚ as a means to present philosophical ideas to his audience. In his novel he explores many different themes and ideas‚ some of which stem from his greatest inspirations. Two of these philosophical ideas are Epicureanism and Dionysian nature. Epicureanism is a theoretical system founded by the philosopher‚ Epicurus (341-270 B.C.E.)‚ who held that happiness should be valued as life’s highest good and that the best way to
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Analysis Paper In Nietzsche’s “On the despisers of the Body”‚ Zarathustra talks about the despisers of the body are those who have the soul of the last man. Zarathustra speaks to those who despise the body‚ and those who recognize that it is only the spirit or soul that determines man. He indicates that humans should pay more attention to listen to the true will of his body rather than enjoy the pleasure of the soul and spirit. “’Body am I‚ and soul’ – thus speaks the child. And why should one
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Heidegger believes that’s the role and ultimate goal of philosophy is to achieve an understanding and awareness of one’s being. Heidegger rejects the modern idea of progress which plans a projected future of society. Heidegger wants to block this revolution‚ which is constant revolutionizing of modern ideas becoming‚ and therefore rejects the basic belief of modernism‚ the belief in progress is not the belief in becoming. Strauss believes that progress has become a problem and
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The novels The Stranger by Albert Camus and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky are both murder novels that explores the inner thoughts of the killers. Camus and Dostoevsky wrote novels that portrays a young man committing murder and how the young man faces the consequences and deals with the horrible crime the which he has committed. Albert Camus and Fyodor Dostoevsky uses two different points of view in each of their novels‚ first person point of view and third person point of view‚ respectively
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On the Genealogy of Morality the word ‘ressentiment’ is possibly one of the key concepts in Nietzsche’s ideas about the psychology of ‘slave-morality’‚ the birth of morality‚ and the way it reassigned morality as we know it today. The word meaning itself is very close to the word resentment in English but is slightly different. The context in which Nietzsche uses the word ‘ressentiment’ is a psychological state of people that are conscious of their own inferiority and turn it to hatred towards external
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