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    different languages. One of Nietzsche’s work‚ the chapter of Euphorion revealed the ironic side of the pubertal Nietzsche. In 1865‚ Nietzsche moved to University of Leipzig. After Nietzsche purchased a book of Schopenhauer in an old bookstall‚ it strongly inspired him‚ and he described Schopenhauer as a “good European” (40). Nietzsche also considered Kant had a huge impact of Philosophy. Nietzsche fell from the horse’s back and broke his breastbone when he served in a military in 1868. Nietzsche had

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    The Illusion of Happiness

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    find ‘true happiness’ without it being a trick of the senses and the mind and‚ in other words‚ an illusion. True happiness is often defined as satisfaction‚ contentment‚ and acceptance. But what comes after the feeling of contentment? Arthur Schopenhauer believes the world to be a "vale of tears‚ full of suffering. All happiness is an illusion. Life oscillates like a pendulum‚ back and forth between the pain and boredom". He explains happiness as a wish of satisfaction‚ which in turn

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    Arthur Schopenhauer once said‚ “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.” All of the characters in the stories learn the significance of what the things they once had. One similar theme that runs throughout those three works‚ “To Build a Fire” by Jack London‚ “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop‚ and “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin is the loss of something significant. Each story or poem has a different way of ending peacefully and handling the loss. The narrator in “To Build

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    Sources of Motivation Paper Tina M. Link PSY/355 April 27‚ 2015 Aaron Childers Sources of Motivation Paper Whether it is intentionally‚ or unintentionally motivation is the reason individual’s act in certain ways. According to Decker‚ (2010)‚ motivation is defined as the process by which an individual moves into action‚ or to decide on a change in action. (p. 3). Motivation occurs from several sources that will have varying effects on different individuals. This is why there is a clear-cut connection

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    action we make is a choice that doesn’t belong to us‚ but is rather a result of complex events that surround us? Do people have a right to justify some of their actions‚ and can be excused due to an idea that they do not act voluntarily? Arthur Schopenhauer explained

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    are suppressed. Since the day where born we are taught wrong from right. We follow the rules of both society and our parents. Initially our parents are the ones we learn from. The truth is nurturing plays a big role in humans been civilized. Like Schopenhauer states “Man is at the bottom a wild and terrible animal. We know him only as what we call civilization has tamed and trained him; hence we are alarmed by the occasional breaking out of his true nature. But whenever the locks and chains of law and

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    Philosophers Assignment Immanuel Kant: The German Philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is one of the central figures in Modern Philosophy. In the The Methaphysik der Sitten (1797) (Methaphysics of Ethics) Kant described his ethical system. In short‚ the three fundamental elements in Kant’s System are: 1. Individuals are rational beings; They have a conception of laws or principles‚ the ability to make choices on the basis of reason and act on those choices. It is rationality that distinct

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    Concept of Beauty according to the Western Philosophers “Beauty is truth‚ truth beauty. That is all ye know on earth‚ and all ye need to know” John Keats Beauty is an emotional element‚ a pleasure of ours‚ which nevertheless we regard as a quality of thing. The ideas of beauty is found in almost every culture and at almost every time in human history‚ with many similarities. Beauty was and still is a term of great esteem linking human beings and nature with artistic practices and works

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    What is happiness

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    Topic:5 MANY WAYS REACHİNG HAPPİNESS WİTHOUT MONEY In our current world‚ as we all regard‚ money is the tool for getting things we need and want. Everyone uses it and suprisingly the money is both tangible and intangible. We work for months and years to have money to buy specific things. ‘’A man wants to earn money in order to be happy‚ and his whole effort and

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    Another of the more offensive and bothersome comments—according to men—made by Nietzsche concerning women is also found in Beyond Good and Evil in the section entitled “Seven Little Sayings on Women.” This section states “men have treated women hitherto like birds… something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away” (166). Maudemarie Clark‚ a feminist writer‚ upon her first reading of this passage‚ translated it to mean women were a “possession‚ as property that can be locked” away

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