many thinkers around the world to question life’s meaning‚ one’s purpose‚ and how professed divine figures could allow such extreme suffering. A growing number of people reached the same conclusion existentialist that Friedrich Nietzsche had several decades earlier. God is dead. Nietzsche extrapolated that the universe is indifferent to human agony and that life is meaningless. Kierkegaard further evolved this thought‚ arguing one could provide meaning to his or her life through his or her decisions
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with the food of truth: and there life is that Wisdom by which all things are made‚ both the things that have been and the things that are yet to be. But this Wisdom itself is not made: it is as it has ever been‚ and so it shall be forever: indeed “has ever been” and “shall be forever” have no place in it‚ but it simply is‚ for it is eternal: whereas “to have been” and “to be going to be” are not eternal. And while we were thus talking of His Wisdom and panting for it‚ with all the effort of our
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The Virtual Dialectic: Rethinking The Matrix and its Significance David J. Gunkel Northern Illinois University Rather than designating the choice between good and evil‚ my Either/Or designates the choice by which one chooses good and evil or rules them out.1 The debates and decisions surrounding virtual reality‚ cyberspace‚ and other forms of computer-mediated communication have been‚ like so much philosophical reasoning within the Western tradition‚ organized around antinomies. One of the
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their own group as “good” and define others as bad and untouchable. Nietzsche has once described this human psychology: “to this rule that a concept denoting political superiority always resolves itself into a concept denoting superiority of soul … that only here did the human soul in a higher sense acquire depth and become evil---and these are the two basic respects in which man has hitherto been superior to other beasts!” Nietzsche thinks that this kind of egocentricity and its development is what
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. . “(The Genealogy of Morals). Nietzsche believed that man created religion to feel guilty. He believed that we’re all animals who are violent and without a purpose. However‚ as an outlet for our cruel nature‚ man created a set of “morals” which we used to create a false sense of purpose
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Chapter 32 1. How did territorial expansion affect Native Americans in North America? The Native Americans lost their “spirit”. Native Americans were considered savages and were either killed or conformed to the American control. The Indians lost their identity due to the American expansion. 2. How were the contradictions of economic expansion expressed by American artists? Walt Whitman linked the romantic‚ transcendental‚ and realist movements together to revolutionize literature. The American
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orthodox views. Although Social Darwinism did not advocate heathenism‚ it collided with the belief of Creationism and divine intervention‚ by evolution. Nietzsche was avidly influenced by Gobineau‚ and obviously held similar views with Social Darwinist principles of the fit’s’ right to dominate the weak’. Due to promotion of such ideas by Nietzsche‚ society began to believe the phrase that might was right’‚ which eventuated in
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disregarding the other ways it has been interpreted. Moreover‚ typology as a philosophical area of research has not received sufficient attention in Nietzsche interpretations although there are many commentaries on the overman and Zarathustra. Before presenting Zarathustra as a type‚ I will briefly discuss the questions of type and typology in Nietzsche‚ bring up other types from his works and suggest possible ways of reading his typology. I Typology is not only a study of types2 which embody certain
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Cartesian Skepticism to Existentialism The nature of our reality and existence has been a topic of debate since at least the ancient Greeks. Do we exist? Why do we exist? Does it even matter? These are questions I will attempt to address thoroughly. Answers may not be comfortable or satisfactory‚ but it’s better to rip that band-aid off now than continue blindly in the dark. Rationalism and Empiricism have both attempted to prove existence‚ but at their most extremes they fall apart. Using
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