Thomas Hobbes (English – Contractarian) 1. View of the State of Nature a. Human nature w/o government is : i. Egoistic ii. Everyone “equal” iii. Equal rights to everything iv. Warlike v. Psychological Egoism – People are motivated by the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain vi. Rational vii. Law of Self Preservation + reason contract 2. Psychological / Ethical Egoism a. Psych – descriptive – People are motivated by the pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain b. Ethical
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creationism armed evolution. The birth of new thought processes and the quest for answers about human existence became extremely popular. In Germany Friedrich Nietzsche began to write and teach of creative arts‚ literature‚ and politics. He virtually originated concepts like Atheism‚ Nihilism‚ the will to power‚ and eternal recurrence. Nietzsche was a professor
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Nietzsche’s critique of Judeo-Christian values As perhaps one of the most important pieces of work written by Nietzsche‚ “On the Genealogy of Morality” contains some of his most complex and provocative thoughts on the nature of morality and its origins. It is evident throughout his essays that Nietzsche has a profound discontent with modern society and its values‚ a discontent that Nietzsche attempts to explain through a thorough critique of the modern values that have stemmed from the rise of Judeo-Christianity
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Morals Nietzsche censures the members of the Judeo-Christian tradition for their "impotence." As a result of their impotence the descendents of this tradition (slaves‚ as I will call them to maintain some modicum of political correctness)‚ have developed a hatred "to monstrous and uncanny proportions" (33). This hatred has had the end result of squelching the happiness and will to powertwo truly laudable elements of humanitythat a truly strong individual might otherwise develop. While Nietzsche touches
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point of view‚ Nietzsche lived his later life in solitude and left professorship‚ and he traveled in search of good health. He suffered from poor health. Nietzsche has critiqued the happiness in modernism that it prohibits critical thinking. "I seek to understand out of what idiosyncrasy that Socratic equation reason=virtue=happiness derives: that bizarrest of equations and one which has in particular all the instincts of the older Hellenes against it" (Nietzsche 1968b: 31). Nietzsche‚ therefore‚ disregarded
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This idea can be further concurred through Nietzsche’s critique of Descartes and his radicalisation of the Kantian critique of the paralogism. Within Beyond Good and Evil‚ Nietzsche focuses on subjectivity and questions where human beings belief in ‘I’ comes from. For Nietzsche‚ the problems in metaphysics are epitomised by subjectivity. The notion of personal identity has been shaped by thousands of years of questioning what it means when human beings say ‘I’‚ which has
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Nietzsche’s theory of “will to power” and “the innocence of becoming”. Does the hypothesis of the will to power successfully “debunk” traditional religion‚ morality‚ and philosophical claims to provide the “disinterested” or “objective” truth? Nietzsche introduced an idea of philosophy that was more than simply a rational groundwork of existence or as the pursuit of an absolute truth. Instead‚ he suggested that philosophy is something to be respected as a personal interpretation of life and all
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Nietzsche on Mind In The Gay Science‚ Friedrich Nietzsche refutes the dogmatic concept of spiritual consciousness and instead insists that “consciousness has developed only under the pressure of the need for communication” (367). Through denying consciousness the status of essential to existence and providing proof of the universal utilization of language for conscious thought formation‚ Nietzsche is successful in asserting social needs as the driving force in the ongoing development of a consciousness
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Simpson’s and Philosophy In the chapter Thus Spake Bart: On Nietzsche and the Virtues of Being Bad‚ Mark T. Conard shows us why people believe Bart Simpson is similar to a philosophical theorist named Friedrich Nietzsche. Bart being the bad boy of the Simpson’s and Nietzsche being the bad boy of Philosophy. Conard says that Bart does not take on the chaos like Nietzsche says but he is just an empty being of bad actions. This argument is ridiculous; Bart Simpson is as creative as creative gets
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s first essay‚ The Good and Evil‚ Good and Bad is Nietzsche’s thoughts on the concepts of ‘good’ and ‘evil’. In describing the origins of ‘goodness’‚ Nietzsche points out that the concept of ‘good’ was created when an individual determined “un-egoistic” acts to be “good” (Nietzsche‚ §2). Furthermore‚ the idea of a ‘good’ act came from the point of view to which the deeds were done. However‚ he does not agree with this origin of “good”. Rather‚ he argues that “good” had not been
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