In Daybreak‚ Friedrich Nietzsche states that “morality is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say‚ morality is a hindrance to the creation of new and better customs: it makes stupid” (Nietzsche 18). Considering the importance placed on morals‚ how is it that “morality makes stupid?” Within the context of morality‚ Nietzsche has two major themes: slave versus master morality and the destruction and creation of a new morality. Through an exploration
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JOHN SMITH PHIL 181: Ethics - Section 6 October 31‚ 2011 Nietzsche Response Paper In Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra‚ we learn that every one of our actions is influenced by a higher interest or objective‚ ultimately seeking personal fulfillment. Everything we do has a determined purpose that directs our life into a desired path. Aristotle portrays our actions as ends‚ and he believes that each end leads to a higher end until reaching a final end‚ eudaimonia. He believes that the only way
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is very close to the word resentment in English but is slightly different. The context in which Nietzsche uses the word ‘ressentiment’ is a psychological state of people that are conscious of their own inferiority and turn it to hatred towards external anger. It is a feeling that arises from the incapability of one’s success and hence finding external factors to blame for this incapability. Nietzsche aligns this concept with the weak people or slaves which are inferior to the noble‚ strong
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notorious declaration that “God is dead” (first in The Gay Science‚ 1872). Secular thinking is a commonplace today‚ but in Nietzsche’s time this declaration was strikingly prophetic. The point of the claim is not so much to assert atheism: although Nietzsche was certainly an atheist‚ he was far from being a pioneer of European atheism. Rather‚ his observation is sociological‚ in a way: he means that Western culture no longer places God at the center of things. In another way‚ the term ‘sociological’
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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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traced back to earlier thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche. Who is a German philosopher and considered as one of the most provocative and influential thinkers of the late nineteenth century who challenged the foundations of Christianity. (Robert Wicks‚ The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Nietzsche ’s philosophy is that ’ ’God is dead ’ ’ and he calls for a ’ ’revaluation of all values ’ ’ in his book Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Both Nietzsche and Sartre are atheistic existentialists and agree
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Final Draft0- The Allegory of Life William Golding’s Lord of the Flies repeatedly contrasts with the morality-driven views of the controversial philosopher Frederick Nietzsche. Golding’s allegorical novel tells the story of a group of young boys who remain stranded on an island and left to their own instincts. Golding and Nietzsche would argue the issues the boys face are based on the morality and nature of man. Ralph‚ the protagonist‚ is delegated power by the other boys‚ while Jack‚ the antagonist
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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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Introduction Over the years the world has experienced different kinds of philosophies trying to demystify social ideologies influencing people’s livelihood. Friedrich Nietzsche through the concept of ‘God is dead’ develops quite meaningful insights on sociocultural aspects such as religion and moral values. The concepts of morality and the belief on a supernatural are some of the components that conventionally have been promoting social coexistence. However‚ in the modern society such
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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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