Christianity’s Origin Christianity as antiquity.-- When we hear the ancient bells growling on a Sunday morning we ask ourselves: Is it really possible! This‚ for a jew‚ crucified two thousand years ago‚ who said he was God’s son? The proof of such a claim is lacking. Certainly the Christian religion is an antiquity projected into our times from remote prehistory; and the fact that the claim is believed - whereas one is otherwise so strict in examining pretensions - is perhaps the most ancient
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Foucault and Nietzsche share similar genealogies regarding the relationship of body and power in “modern” humans. However‚ Foucault adapted Nietzsche’s concepts as stepping-stones for different genealogical theories. Largely in regard as to how moderns were made through the training and discipline of bodies. According to Foucault‚ the individual is a modern concept‚ that whose origin‚ or genealogy was constructed from institutions power. For Nietzsche‚ the individual is an effect of social relationships
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_____________Anathapindika______________________________________________________ The Great Biography Friedrich Nietzsche Anathapindika F14AM0552 AM1B VAF 1041 Intro to Visual Arts Dept. of Arts Management and Education NAFA Passage Submission 01 Ms. Cleo Thang 24th August 2014 Word count: 350 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is a prominent German philosopher and scholar‚ whose provocative notions have led him into being one of the most influential
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Collin Laguzza Pl215 Ethics Paper C 12/10/15 Friedrich Nietzsche explores the importance and true value of morality in his work On the Genealogy of Morality. Nietzsche fails to provide a concrete definition of morality however‚ he instills values and their relations to modern humanity. It has been clear that people do not doubt that good is highest in value compared to evil. Nietzsche questions if the opposite were true. He proposes that what we call good may actually be detrimental to our livelihood
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Mill and Nietzsche have different ideas on how people act towards their actions. Mill focuses on the end purpose of human behaviors to create happiness for a group of people rather than an individual happiness. He defines Utilitarianism as human’s actions that lead to happiness. Human’s desires either give pleasure or prevent pain to create happiness (Arthur & Scalet‚ 2009‚ p. 66). For Mill‚ the consequences of an action matter. As discussed in class‚ we could measure the quantity and quality of
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state‚ but always striving for something more. Humans strive toward becoming subjective. For Kierkegaard‚ life is a transformation from essential to existential. Nietzsche sees man similar to this‚ He calls man a “bridge" rather than an “end". The important part of a man is his potential. Man is striving‚ but for something different. Nietzsche says that for man Ubermensch‚ the ideal man or Superman‚ is the goal. It’s a representation of man at a constant battle to overcome itself. The Superman must
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Aristotle and Plato. As history proceeds‚ more and more ideas are created about various important topics. Even modern thinkers have made a vast impact on today’s society. One of the most influential philosophers in the past 200 years was Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche lived during the 1800s. Some of his more well known works include The Gay Science and On the Genealogy of Morals. His ideas that were presented in these works on morality and religion impacted the world in a massive way. Another modern figure
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Analysis In The Gay Science‚ Friedrich Nietzsche talks about how “To grow tired of a possession is to grow tired of ourselves‚” and how sexual love is “a craving for a new property.” In The Prince‚ Niccolo Machiavelli talks about “whether it is better to be loved rather than feared‚ or feared rather than loved.” In Nietzsche’s text he focuses on how greed and love are similar to each other‚ while in Machiavelli’s text he contrast the idea of being feared rather than loved. The arrangement of both
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The Genealogy of Morals is comprised of three essays that focus on and criticizes the value of moral judgements. The first essay‚ “Good and Evil‚” “Good and Bad” contrasts what Nietzsche describes as “Master Morality‚” “Slave Morality.” Master morality was developed by the strong‚ free and healthy who had control over their own happiness. Slave morality is the feelings that the slaves adopted from being controlled by their wealthy and happy masters. These people were nicknamed the masters of
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in “the slave revolt of morality” that Nietzsche says begins with “ressentiment‚” a jealously fueled manifestation of morality that consists of an “outward” resentment of the “external world… [such that] its action is fundamentally reaction” (124). In other words‚ the “slaves” or the commoners described in the first moral dynamic now use their place as the “pure” ones in society to outwardly label others as “evil.” And‚ who are the evil “enemies?” Nietzsche very directly states that the “good man
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