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    Morality) Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche‚ a German philosopher thought up of the idea that there are two moralities; The master and slave morality. These define a person by there actions to there world around them and how they handle certain situations they encounter throughout their natural life. I believe he chose these two because they seem to be strong opposites and there are rational. The first morality Nietzsche writes about is the master morality. Nietzsche defined master morality as the

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    meaning we can come to‚ rendering us philosophically immobile. Grappling with the demands of reality while keeping up with the pace of post-modernity proves to be a daunting responsibility‚ but alas‚ it is a chore we must reconcile ourselves with. As Nietzsche proclaims‚ “We remain unknown to ourselves‚ we seekers of knowledge‚ even to ourselves: and with good reason‚”[1] he begins to assemble the foundations for what would be a thorough investigation - - a search‚ for that sense of comfort we associate

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    Nietzsche’s rejection of traditional morality Zarathustra’s Prologue What does Zarathustra tell us about the challenges of leading people who have become too comfortable and uncritical? According to Zarathustra‚ he said that he did not want to be spared by their best enemies nor even the people they love. He said that leading uncritical and comfortable people within the society is hypocritical and therefore those leading such people feel ashamed of themselves. He said that such people should not

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    Nietzsche is inherently polemic. This is a characterization that Nietzsche has applied to himself; the book that both informs‚ and is informed by every other book Nietzsche has written on the subject of revaluation of existing values‚ On the Genealogy of Morality‚ is subtitled simply A Polemic. It is clear that in this context‚ Nietzsche’s polemic is derived from the extent to which Nietzsche’s argument will invariably conflict with the existing system of valuation‚ to which the book is meant to

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    In “On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense‚” Nietzsche questions the purpose and existence of the human race. He points out that humans strive to be educated and are taught that knowledge is power. They believe that they are the superior life form on earth due the plethora of information they discover and believe is true. When stepping back and viewing these thoughts‚ as Nietzsche does‚ readers are forced to realize that these ways of thinking about humans versus other life forms‚ is nonsense and

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    3 Blind Existentialists

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    existentialists but 3 of them stand out in the literary world. A cartoon made by Alex Gregory for The New Yorker involved the 3 (Sartre‚ Nietzsche‚ and Kierkegaard). The cartoon pointed out the three ideas split into a 3 part cartoon involving each of the viewpoints for each existentialist. The first cartoon is a Kierkegaard mug. The second cartoon is a Nietzsche immobile sculpture. The final cartoon is a Sartre based Icarus framed painting. The first existentialist is Kierkegaard. If the world

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    alibaba321 See the truth‚ perceive the lie Nietzsche explains nature as an overall relative to humans; he proposes a potent and significant explanation of the development of language and the realization of concepts. He achieves this by exploiting the successive effects on human awareness. He suggests that originally humans were "an artistically creating subject" as he puts it. Whose essential human determination is the construction of metaphors? Due to evolution‚ humankind developed a capacity

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    Interpreting Films

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    Films” Based on what I read‚ Friedrich Nietzsche has many different views about perspectivism. Perspective is determined by communication‚ the world of “phenomena”‚ the antithesis of this phenomenal world‚ and questions. The communication is necessary. The world of “phenomena” is for it to be real. The antithesis of phenomenal world is called the “true world” according to Nietzsche. Last but not least‚ questions for our understanding. Example provided by Nietzsche: How could we know that things exist

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    Groundhog Day Analysis

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    and again” . Philosopher Nietzsche explained on the idea and viewed life as a reoccurrence. He had a theory that all events in your lifetime will reoccur again and again. The film Groundhog Day as a similar event happened to the main character Phil where he is reliving the same day over and over. In my essay I will explain the similar and differences from Nietzsche eternal return and the film Groundhog Day and will as the virtue ethics from Aristotle. Throughout Nietzsche writing he wrote a lot on

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    Nietzsche's Will To Power

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    Will to power is prevalent in Nietzsche attitude toward the body but what kinds of will to power are there? Nietzsche argues that the body is motivated by tendencies‚ tendencies that are either sick or healthy will to powers. These tendencies relate to the drives one gets from their own will to power. Nietzsche believes that metaphysical tendencies for example‚ are motivated by sick instincts. Everybody has drives‚ and these drives are what drives the body to do one action or another. Our drive leads

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