Friedrich Nietzsche and Mahatma Gandhi‚ two mammoth political figures of their time‚ attack the current trend of society. Their individual philosophies and concepts suggest a fundamental problem: if civilization is so diseased‚ can we overcome this state of society and the sickness that plagues the minds of the masses in order to advance? Gandhi and Nietzsche attain to answer the same proposition of sickness within civilization‚ and although the topic of unrest among both may be dissimilar‚ they
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The Question: State your understanding of the philosophy of F. Nietzsche. What does he mean by saying "God is Dead"? Nietzsche’s philosophy is that of a radical view as it calls for the complete reevaluation of morals and blatantly attacks the Judeo-Christian tradition in modern society. He believed one should dare to become who they are. In order to ascertain one’s full potential as a human being‚ the ethic system of which by society runs‚ must be changed as it only
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s essay in On the Genealogy of Morals explores the origins and meaning to different moral concepts. Nietzsche does not believe that moral values are given; rather they emerge under certain conditions‚ promoting the survival and growth of a particular group of people. The way Nietzsche describes morality as “the slave revolt in morality began with resentment itself becomes creative and gives birth to values: the ressentiment of natures that are denied the true reaction‚ that of
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Nietzsche argues master and slave morality to differentiate between “good” and “bad”. Since there is “good” and “bad”‚ there is punishment in relative to that relationship which is also explained by Nietzsche. This essay is a reconstruction of slave’s morality and its relation to Nietzsche’s ideas of punishment. Also‚ there will be an alternative strategy for punishment mention by consulting what is the good in life. In Nietzsche’s first essay‚ he discusses the difference between “good” and “evil”
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Nietzsche‚ Birth of Tragedy In Friedrich Nietzsche’s work The Birth of Tragedy‚ he argues that during the times of the ancient Greeks the artistic fusion between the Apollonian way of thinking and the Dionysian way of thinking lead to the creation of the greatest works of tragic art and music. Nietzsche believes that society needs to develop a new art form that recognizes the balance between the apollonian and Dionysian influence to reaffirm human existence. Nietzsche uses the Greek Gods‚ Apollo
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Layne Johnson Dr. Scott Austin PHIL 251-502 December 6‚ 2011 Nietzsche and the Ascetic Ideal According to Friedrich Nietzsche in his third essay of “On the Genealogy of Morals” the ascetic ideal is nothing more than a false sense of moral codes and boundaries set to fill what would be an otherwise void part of the human mind. Nietzsche believes that any true philosopher will reject the notion of ascetic ideals as a creation of the misguided masses of society. He believed that to make sense of
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evolution. And the great philosopher Nietzsche is also one to disagree with Craig’s argument. However‚ even though Nietzsche and other philosophers provide many examples that help go against this argument‚ William Lone Craig has proven that the existence of moral values exist and therefore proves the existence of God. To help prove this argument‚ you must first take a look the other side from the important‚ well know philosopher Nietzsche himself. Nietzsche gives many reasons that lead to the nonexistence
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been attempted by successive writers. Jean-Paul Sartre and Friedrich Nietzsche both attempted to replace traditional morality with an ethics based on authenticity. This essay will discuss some of the initial similarities in their approaches‚ and identify where and why their approaches diverge. In the course of this examination‚ a number of prima facie objections to their theories will be examined‚ and I will argue that Nietzsche goes much further to create a positive morality than is usually thought
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have to get rid of one or the other‚ but Nihilism theories seem to have a lot less explanatory power than do dualistic ones to me. In this paper I will argue that the clearest difference between Descartes and Nietzsche here is that whereas Descartes thought that ideas are passive‚ Nietzsche thought the opposite. Well‚ Descartes tries to prove the existence of God‚ which is the condition of establishing/ensuring an external world‚ including inter-subjectivity‚ in his view. God is a precondition of
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In “Beyond Good and Evil”‚ Friedrich Nietzsche argues that “life is will to power” (p.68). In this paper‚ I will argue for this argument because I believe that people are controlled by elements of power exist in every aspect of life. The kind of power that is being referred in this paper is the capability‚ ability to direct or influence others. A general life cycle consists of three phases: going to school‚ getting a job and eventually death. We have been exposed to this kind of power since the
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