Final Draft0- The Allegory of Life William Golding’s Lord of the Flies repeatedly contrasts with the morality-driven views of the controversial philosopher Frederick Nietzsche. Golding’s allegorical novel tells the story of a group of young boys who remain stranded on an island and left to their own instincts. Golding and Nietzsche would argue the issues the boys face are based on the morality and nature of man. Ralph‚ the protagonist‚ is delegated power by the other boys‚ while Jack‚ the antagonist
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Tragedy :From the View of Aristotle and Nietzsche Tragedy itself has a sense on ordinary mind that easily defines it roughly as imitation of an action on the stage.Today it is going to be discussed two philosphers ‘‚Aristotle and Nietzsche‚ views about tragedy while understanding their philosophy about life itself. To start with what is tragedy for Aristotle and Nietzsche should be the first question that has to be understood to shine a light on whole discussion.For Aristotle‚ tragedy
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Ecce Homo by Nietzsche is ironically a reflection of himself. It is extremely sarcastic and is a reflection of himself as a writer and philosopher in a self-deprecatory manner . The book is as though he is putting his life on trial to which the title alludes. The words "ecce homo" (behold‚ the man) were proclaimed by Pontius Pilate in the New Testament of the Bible when he gave up Jesus to the Jews to have them do what they liked with him. Likewise Nietzsche is giving himself up to his readers and
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According to Nietzsche in this section‚ the good life consists of power and overcoming obstacles. The bad life comes from weakness. Nietzsche says that humans desire power and that anything proceeding from weakness is bad. Happiness comes from an increase in power and the weak are destroyed. He believes that providing sympathy to those who display immoral conduct is worse than immoral acts by themselves. This is what he sees Christianity as and is greatly opposed to it. Concupiscence and cupidity
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disregarding the other ways it has been interpreted. Moreover‚ typology as a philosophical area of research has not received sufficient attention in Nietzsche interpretations although there are many commentaries on the overman and Zarathustra. Before presenting Zarathustra as a type‚ I will briefly discuss the questions of type and typology in Nietzsche‚ bring up other types from his works and suggest possible ways of reading his typology. I Typology is not only a study of types2 which embody certain
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The "Will to Power" Nietzsche believed the will to power to be the fundamental causal power in the world‚ the driving force of all natural phenomena and the dynamic to which all other causal powers could be reduced. I believe Nietzsche in part hoped the will to power could be a theory of everything‚ providing the ultimate foundations for explanations of everything from whole societies‚ to individual organisms‚ down to simple lumps of matter. The will to power cannot be known. It must be understood
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A Discussion of Nietzsche’s Master and Slave Morality and Ascetic Ideal In his work‚ Nietzsche introduces the concepts of Master and Slave Morality and with them‚ the problem of the Ascetic Ideal. Master morality is‚ in short‚ a morality of strength‚ individualism‚ and nobility that weighs actions on their consequences. Slave morality‚ on the other hand‚ values humility‚ sympathy‚ and kindness. It values actions based on whether their intent was one of “good” or “evil.” He links Slave morality to
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Per Nietzsche‚ this is a waste of time and that does not reflect who a person really is‚ one ethics decision will have to change from place to place‚ not allowing them to really be themselves. “Nietzsche’s proposal of living is beyond any traditional moral limit”
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Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was born on April 30‚ 1777 in Germany‚ to poor working class parents. His mother did not recorded the hate of his birth‚ she didn’t even remember the day he was born all she remembered was that it was eight days before the feast of the ascension‚ which happens 40 days after Easter Gauss ended up figuring out when he was born on his own. Gauss made his first ground breaking mathematical discoveries while still a teenager. He completed Disquisitiones Arithmeticae‚ his magnum
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school of thought that would tackle these seemingly simple questions. Under the thin guise of many pseudonyms‚ Søren Kierkegaard attempted to reconcile the issues religion had planted into his psyche by reintroducing man to religion. Later‚ Frederick Nietzsche came along and said in opposition that religion is dying for we have in fact killed God. Even though these two philosophers stand on opposing sides of a deep chasm‚ modern scholars have dubbed these two the fathers of modern existentialism. For
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