The Antichrist Analysis Nietzsche sets out to denounce and illegitimize not only Christianity itself as a belief and a practice‚ but also the ethical-moral value system which modern western civilization has inherited from it in the Antichrist. One of the most important of these ideas is that Christianity has made people nihilistic and weak by regarding pity and related sentiments as the highest virtues. Nietzsche traces the origin of these values to the ancient Jews who lived under Roman occupation
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Views on women -Nietzsche wrote "Women are essentially unpeaceful" and "Man is for woman a means; the purpose is always a child. But what is woman for man?" The answer to this question (as well as the question you pose) is difficult to ascertain and there are a number of opposing and complex views on how he regarded women. -Hence‚ Derrida claims that for Nietzsche‚ there is no eternal essence of womanhood. -Nietzsche’s view of women is explicitly based upon their role as potential mothers -
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Nietzsche begins by tearing apart the philosopher and his views. They idolize concepts and threaten the life of anything they worship. In Nietzsche’s opinion‚ once the philosophers got to these concepts nothing managed to escape alive. In response Nietzsche says‚ “that which is‚ does not become; that which becomes‚ is not.” Nietzsche explains that the philosophers all believe in the which is‚ however they fail to understand so instead they search for a reason why it withholds itself from them. Finally
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Hegelian dialectic - professed that mankind was developing in an upward direction‚ becoming more angelic as it were. Man’s moral laws were more advanced‚ as support for democracy and equal rights were beginning to become popular. However‚ Friedrich Nietzsche believed that mankind was entering a downward spiral towards complete decadence. Modern man‚ with its "advanced" morality‚ was‚ in truth‚ decaying on the inside. Claims of morality merely masked modern man’s decay: he is veiled behind moral formulas
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each other. In Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche the discussion God being seen as a different figure to all religions is brought up. In my response‚ I will analysis the passages 55‚ 66‚ 67‚ 129‚ and 183. Passage 55 states‚ “There is a great ladder of religious cruelty with many rungs; but three of them are the most important. At one time one sacrificed human beings to one’s god‚ perhaps precisely those human beings one loved best….” (Nietzsche 55). When this statement is made‚ he is explaining
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Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality. Nietzsche depicts the aristocratic man‚ the noble man‚ very distinctly with qualities of mentality and behavior. An aristocratic man embraces his sovereignty‚ relishes in life‚ and refuses to feel guilt. Odysseus lives what Nietzsche describes as a good and noble life‚ a life characterized by action and war. Odysseus not only is King of Ithaca‚ but also the epitome of the aristocratic man in attitude and action. Nietzsche conveys his admiration of the noble
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Friedrich Nietzsche and Karl Marx were intellectuals with vastly different world views and opinions on how things should be run but the one matter in which they would both agree leaves a bad taste in their mouths is Christianity. Nietzsche see Christianity as a blight upon humans‚ something holding us back from our fullest potential. Karl Marx does not necessarily see Christianity as the great evil that Nietzsche makes it out to be‚ but he would agree that complicated monolith that is Christianity
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Nietzsche also talks about the origin of the noble conception of good and bad in terms of the linguistics during (Genealogy‚ I §4-5) where he comments that the word for bad in German Schlecht is practically identical to the German word for plain Schlicht with him saying that this indicates that in the noble morality the bad is only that which is common or simple but it is not meant in a derogatory way it is meant only so to separate them from the nobles or the good. He comments further that he believes
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might not be so far off. Both Nietzsche and Dr. King were thought of as “radical thinkers‚” and are still thought of as “radical thinkers” till this day‚ for completely separate reasons. But I believe that their motivations/motives are the reason why their views in morality are equivalent in seriousness to; fundamentally the same. Even though these two great “critical thinkers” have opposing views in certain important issues‚ such as Christianity‚ I believe that if Nietzsche were to have lived during
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Immanuel Kant Summery: There are two faculties of the mind: theoretical reason and practical reason. Theoretical reason allows us to answer the question‚ "What can I know?"‚ while practical reason allows us to answer the question‚ "What ought I to do?". For Kant‚ practical reason issues a duty to respect its law. That is‚ morality is not rooted in consequences (consequentialism)‚ but rather in sheer duty (deontological ethics). For Kant‚ practical reason issues a "categorical imperative"
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