120 Days of Moral Deterioration: Pasolini’s SALÒ in the Misinterpretation of Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality “Because we’re not their masters‚ even the most bizarre manias derive from a basic principle of refinement. Yes‚ old buggers. It’s a question of delicacy.” -The Bishop‚ in SALÒ or the 120 Days of Sodom “No festivity without cruelty; such is the lesson of the earliest‚ longest period in the history of mankind – and even in punishment there is so much that is festive!” -On
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same occasion every time for all mankind‚ then it acquires at last the same meaning for men it would have if it were the sole necessary image and if the relationship of the original nerve stimulus to the generated image were a strictly causal one” (Nietzsche 6). He also states that everything‚ no matter what it is (a feeling‚ a tangible item‚ or even a scientific law)‚ has a different aesthetic meaning to every person. So‚ essentially‚ every person defines his or her own universe. The beginning of
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Layne Johnson Dr. Scott Austin PHIL 251-502 December 6‚ 2011 Nietzsche and the Ascetic Ideal According to Friedrich Nietzsche in his third essay of “On the Genealogy of Morals” the ascetic ideal is nothing more than a false sense of moral codes and boundaries set to fill what would be an otherwise void part of the human mind. Nietzsche believes that any true philosopher will reject the notion of ascetic ideals as a creation of the misguided masses of society. He believed that to make sense of
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Friedrich Frobel Friedrich Frobel was born at Oberweibock in the Principality of Schwarzburg ‚Rudollsradt in Thuringia.His father was the pastor of orthodox Lutheron.So‚ the chruch and Lutheron christian faith had an importance place in his early education.His mother died when he was nine months old.İn 1792‚Fröbel went to live in the small town with his uncle.At the age of 15 he became apprentice to a forester.Then ‚he worked as a land surveyer from 1802 to 1805.He quit his job and began as
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was first introduced into philosophical discourse by Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743–1819)‚ who used the term to characterize rationalism‚ and in particular Immanuel Kant’s "critical" philosophy in order to carry out a reductio ad absurdum according to which all rationalism (philosophy as criticism) reduces to nihilism‚ and thus it should be avoided and replaced with a return to some type of faith and revelation. (See also fideism.) Friedrich Nietzsche’s later work displays a preoccupation with
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Friedrich Nietzsche and Mahatma Gandhi‚ two mammoth political figures of their time‚ attack the current trend of society. Their individual philosophies and concepts suggest a fundamental problem: if civilization is so diseased‚ can we overcome this state of society and the sickness that plagues the minds of the masses in order to advance? Gandhi and Nietzsche attain to answer the same proposition of sickness within civilization‚ and although the topic of unrest among both may be dissimilar‚ they
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What method does Nietzsche use to become the Dionysian Overman? What perspective on life does the Overman adopt? How does it enable “amor fati” and express optimum Yes-saying to our present natural life in the world? How does this overcome “slave morality or religion”? Nietzsche uses acceptance of fate‚ its obstacles‚ adversity and also its divinity to become the Dionysian Overman. He believes by affirming life in both its cruelty and beauty that we can achieve joy in the present without the need
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community‚ the cultivation of brotherhood for all of mankind seems to be something which is possible. The ethic of Christianity‚ while not perfect‚ can serve to better the individual and the world by the self-sacrificing of ones own selfish desires. Nietzsche would contend that it is the sacrificing of self which exactly leads to the entrapment of the mind. I however do not believe this to be true. Two prime example of how sacrificing ones own desires and self can cultivate a greater world and individual
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"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way‚ the correct way‚ and the only way‚ it does not exist." ~Friedrich Nietzsche Why‚ but why is everyone so opinionated about practically everything to do with pregnancy and child rearing? Everything is treated like a binary decision - right or wrong‚ no middle ground. The Breast-milk Nazis vs The Formula Fascists‚ while the Controlled Crying Brigade will not even talk to the Instant Attention Army! You risk grievous bodily harm if you offer your
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forgiveness in him and for they even ask him to give them happiness. So when most people hear the phrase “God is dead” they laugh it off and continue with their day. But this gave birth to a new worldview in which God is not at the center. Friedrich Nietzsche is the one who coined the phrase in his text “The Madman”. This worldview describes that once we realize that God is dead and that we are the ones who killed him‚ we will pave the way for a better future for the generations to come. When the
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