Michael Foucault’s work‚ a renowned French philosopher‚ has greatly influenced the study of politics. He began his career as a Marxist and went on to research about sociologically and politically valuable data. In 1961‚ for his doctoral thesis‚ Foucault wrote his first major work called the “The History of Madness.” In this book‚ he gives a historical account of a constitution (as he calls it) of experiences of madness ranging from the 15th to the 19th century in Europe. It involves studying effects
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1. Explain how Hegel’s historical materialism ties to further the idea that the world is constantly perfecting itself. Be sure to explain how the Hegelian dialect works in full detail. Use parliamentary democracy or the institution of science to show Hegel’s philosophy of reality works. 2. Explain the Lockean proviso in depth using examples. Explain how money & capital circumvents the Lockean Proviso. As such‚ do you think family inheritances should be legal or heavily taxed? John Locke theory
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Q) Critically analyze the Figure of Madman in Dario Fo’s play The Accidental Death of an anarchist. A) Dario Fo’s play The Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1970) lies in the category of revolutionary theatre that challenges the fascist regime of Italy. The play is a farce based on events involving a real person‚ Giuseppe Pinelli‚ who fell - or was thrown - from the fourth floor window of a Milan police station in 1969. He was accused of bombing a bank. The accusation is widely seen as part of
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ourselves‚ the murderers of all murderers?” (Nietzsche‚ 1882‚ 1887‚ s. 125).This is one of many renowned and influential quotes devised by the prolific German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. A lover of Greek myths and a philologist by trade‚ Nietzsche expounded his controversial philosophy with an iron fist criticizing Platonism‚ Christianity and other popular forms of thought as anesthetising and suppressing the instinctual‚ impulsive energies of man. Nietzsche was the original non-conformist and true
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Beyond Good and Evil‚ Nietzsche identifies common prejudices of past and present philosophers. Nietzsche begins with a critique of “Faith in opposite values”‚ an assumption that the world is divided into opposites. The foundational sets of opposites include truth versus falsehood‚ and conscious thinking versus instincts. However‚ Nietzsche finds that these are little more than ago-old accepted truths‚ which are in fact prejudices (Nietzsche‚ Beyond Good and Evil‚ 1886‚ 6). Nietzsche‚ also points to another
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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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Hitler’s Misinterpretation of Nietzsche No serious thinker has done more unintentional harm to the Jewish people than Friedrich Nietzsche. Following his death‚ Nietzsche’s writings served as an inspiration and philosophical justification for Adolf Hitler and Nazism. Quite paradoxically‚ Nietzsche was far from anti-Semitic; in fact‚ many considered Nietzsche to be one of the more pro-Jewish philosophers of his era. Although Nietzsche’s position against anti-Semitism seems clear in the
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personalities until he moved to Naumburg. Nietzsche spent most of his lifetimes discovering the truth and his writings‚ even though he did not plan to study in philosophy field at the beginning.
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Lu Xun’s short story “Diary of a Madman” marks the birth of modernism in Chinese literature and is the earliest literature works written in modern vernacular Chinese during the May Fourth period. Modeled after Nikolay Gogol’s story with similar title‚ the story condemns the old traditional Confucian values that have long persisted in the Chinese society; portrayed by the madman in the story that sees it as a ‘man-eating’ society. Lu Xun despises the idea of a society who adheres to the tradition
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Edgar Allen Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart captures the rationale of a madman in his moment of madness. By doing this‚ Poe gives the audience an accurate display of the human psyche today. He also allows readers to enjoy his mastery of literature by transforming a story into a nightmare. Lastly‚ Poe has the knack to intertwine the knowledge of dreams and nightmares into his writing to create real-life emotions. Therefore‚ when it comes to the human experience‚ Edgar Allen Poe conveys the message that
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