Writing Assignment #2 Due October 28 As with the previous assignment‚ you have several options from which you can develop your topic: Critical Analysis: Write a Critical Analysis paper (described in the instructions for Writing Assignment #1) of some claim from philosophers we’ve read after the Minitest. Epicureanism Today or Confucius Today or Stoicism Today: See below. Philosophical Poetry: Analyze and critique one of Laozi’s poems. See below. Epicureanism Today or Confucius Today
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Introduction Our presentation is about Friedrich Nietzsche who was one of the most important and influential modern thinkers of nineteenth century for his notions of inexistentialism‚ post-modernism‚ and post-structuralism; but before talking about him‚ I would like to tell you a brief introduction of postmodernism and how this philosopher took these concepts to explain his ideologies. One of the main characteristics of postmodern thinking is that the world is seen as much more complex and an
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What method does Nietzsche use to become the Dionysian Overman? What perspective on life does the Overman adopt? How does it enable “amor fati” and express optimum Yes-saying to our present natural life in the world? How does this overcome “slave morality or religion”? Nietzsche uses acceptance of fate‚ its obstacles‚ adversity and also its divinity to become the Dionysian Overman. He believes by affirming life in both its cruelty and beauty that we can achieve joy in the present without the need
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same occasion every time for all mankind‚ then it acquires at last the same meaning for men it would have if it were the sole necessary image and if the relationship of the original nerve stimulus to the generated image were a strictly causal one” (Nietzsche 6). He also states that everything‚ no matter what it is (a feeling‚ a tangible item‚ or even a scientific law)‚ has a different aesthetic meaning to every person. So‚ essentially‚ every person defines his or her own universe. The beginning of
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Chapter 1 THE NATURE OF MORALITY Copyright‚ J. Humble‚ 2010 ETHICAL • • • • • • Moral Right Good Fair Just Proper Copyright‚ J. Humble‚ 2010 INDUSTRIAL OR BUSINESS ETHICS • The study of what constitutes moral‚ right or good conduct in a business context. • BUSINESS: any for-profit organization Copyright‚ J. Humble‚ 2010 MORAL OR ETHICAL STANDARDS • Concern behavior that can have serious consequences to human welfare. • IMMORAL violates moral standards • NON-MORAL does not concern moral standards
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Nietzsche believed that to be moralistic is to be hypocritical. The textbook defines moralistic as‚ “Expressing commonplace moral sentiments that conflict with one’s behavior and equating moral sentimentality with virtuous living; a form of hypocrisy that resembles a reaction formation‚” (Soccio 16-5). Basically what Nietzsche was saying is that what our culture believes is morally right is not what people actually want. “In Nietzsche’s view‚ modernity is anti-life and anti-nature‚ and modern‚ Christianized
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Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche was born on October 15th 1844 in the small town close to Leipzig. His father was a Lutheran pastor and former teacher. In 1849‚ his father died of a brain ailment and the family then moved to Naumburg where they lived with Nietzsche’s grandmother. In 1864‚ at the age of twenty‚ Nietzsche began his studies in theology and classical philology at the University of Bonn. After just one semester‚ Nietzsche halted his theological studies and lost his faith. He
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In Twilight of the Idols Nietzsche writes‚ "My objection against the whole of sociology in England and France remains that it knows from experience only the forms of decay‚ and with perfect innocence accepts its instincts of decay as the norm of sociological value-judgments. The decline of life‚ the decrease in the power to organize‚ that is to tear open clefts‚ subordinate and super-ordinate -- all this has been formulated as the ideal in contemporary sociology." (p 541). The culture of Europe
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community‚ the cultivation of brotherhood for all of mankind seems to be something which is possible. The ethic of Christianity‚ while not perfect‚ can serve to better the individual and the world by the self-sacrificing of ones own selfish desires. Nietzsche would contend that it is the sacrificing of self which exactly leads to the entrapment of the mind. I however do not believe this to be true. Two prime example of how sacrificing ones own desires and self can cultivate a greater world and individual
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Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche spoke of the “the death of God” and foresaw the dissolution of traditional religion and metaphysics. Some interpreters of Nietzsche believe he embraced a literary exploration of the human condition‚ while not being concerned with gaining truth and knowledge in the traditional sense of those terms. However‚ other interpreters of Nietzsche say that in attempting to counteract the predicted rise of nihilism‚ he was engaged in a positive program to reaffirm life‚ and so
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