Ashar Hussain Friedrich Nietzsche Was One Trill Dude There are‚ perhaps‚ no religious criticisms more vitriolic than Friedrich Nietzsche’s. The world has yet to see a philosopher more staunchly opposed to traditional morality or contemporary society. It is peculiar that the son of a minister‚ born in a rural village southwest of Leipzig‚ would develop into one of the most creative‚ agile minds in the history of philosophy. Indeed‚ the realm of Nietzsche’s reasoning was as expansive as any before
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and bad. He elaborates that in the modern world the way we define good and bad is never questioned since we assume those definitions were reasonably created. Over time‚ Nietzsche argues‚ we lost sight of the origin of these words‚ pinpointing this moment as “when aristocratic value judgments declined” (Nietzsche 26). Nietzsche holds the ruling aristocratic class responsible for originally defining good and bad‚ while the common lower class followed with their own definition of good and its antithesis
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1 Thoughts on Equality and society; Plato‚ Rousseau‚ and Nietzsche. Equality is the concept of everyone being equal in a certain state‚ with equality there would be little to no biased opinions‚ no fighting over wealth‚ and just a free world where everyone can live amongst one another and still obey the laws without worrying about social structure or who is better than someone else. Many different philosophers have spent years on trying to figure out where inequality first started and what
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In this essay I will summarize how the philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault have recorded how the meanings of certain concepts have changed through history‚ paying close attention to the texts of Nietzsche ’s "Good and Evil‚ Good and Bad" and Foucault ’s "The Insane". I will also suggest what I believe are the philosophical lessons that they think we can draw from recognizing these changes. In the chapter from his book Madness & Civilization‚"The Insane"‚ Michel Foucault charts
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Nietzsche and the Apollonian/ Dionysian Aspects of the World Amongst the numerous great gods of the Greek mythology were two outstanding antagonists; Apollo and Dionysus. Just as any other divinity‚ these were studied and compared by many. This subject being centered on the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche‚ Mark Anderson’ in his journal said Nietzsche described them as “artistic energies which burst forth from nature herself” (Anderson‚ p.20)‚ whereas Apollonian energy is being
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FIGHT CLUB (Marx‚ Darwin‚ Freud and Nietzsche Analysis) Fight Club is a movie about Jack who is an insomniac man‚ he work as a car manufacturer. He owns everything he wanted to from his condo to the furniture’s he have. Due to his insomniac he keeps on going to various groups also with the people with serious illness in order to get the human contact he wants. He has no friends at all‚ no relationship and no love ones. He thinks that joining clubs and other groups is the only thing to help him
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use Nietzsche’s words to validate their ideas. The discussion of the "nobleness" of the "blond beast" could be twisted by any halfwit and made into racist ideology‚ even though Nietzsche had not the slightest penchant for such ideals. The second great influence of Nietzsche on Hitler was the idea of the superman. Nietzsche believed that certain people of the noble morality could rise above the pettiness of existence and live as a race of supermen. This idea of the superman fed Hitler’s idea of
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competing against one another but eventually need each other in the end for both of them to survive. Nietzsche argues that the master slave morality is divided into two fundamental types of morality. The “Master Morality” weighs actions on a scale ranging from “good to bad consequences” while on a different spectrum the “Slave Morality” weighs actions on a scale from “good or evil intentions”. Nietzsche believes that his master-slave morality implements the basis of all critical explanation or interpretation
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Examine Nietzsche’s statement in The Birth of Tragedy that it is only as an ‘Aesthetic Phenomenon’ that existence can be ‘justified’ to eternity. According to the qualities of ‘eternity’ and ‘existence’ that Nietzsche and Schopenhauer prescribe; it is by definition that something can only be justified in the phenomenal world: the world of ‘existence’. Although this statement describes existence justifying itself to eternity‚ The Birth of Tragedy tends to illustrate the inverse: eternity justifying
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Both Nietzsche and Foucault have documented how the meanings of certain concepts transform as they progress through history. In Nietzsche’s case‚ this can be seen most vividly within his documentation of the changing concepts of morality presented in his work ‘On The Genealogy of Morals.’ This publication traces episodes within the development of moral valuations and‚ indeed‚ notes how changing concepts of good and bad have altered as history has progressed. Similarly‚ in ‘Madness and Civilisation
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