narration makes feudal system conflict more vigorous and results in the deep art impression. In the story‚ there is no time order like the traditional Chinese story. Moreover‚ the detailed plot‚ including time and place‚ is not narrated in detail. The madman ’s accusation is not limited to certain time and place but extends to the whole 4000 years of history. This style of narration signals the start of modern Chinese novels that penetrates through the past‚ present‚ and future (Sun & Xu 40-45). Metaphors
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Nietzsche on Mind In The Gay Science‚ Friedrich Nietzsche refutes the dogmatic concept of spiritual consciousness and instead insists that “consciousness has developed only under the pressure of the need for communication” (367). Through denying consciousness the status of essential to existence and providing proof of the universal utilization of language for conscious thought formation‚ Nietzsche is successful in asserting social needs as the driving force in the ongoing development of a consciousness
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2012 20th Century World Literature A Madman’s Diary In this paper we will research the Chinese Revolution of 1911. Talk about how is Lu Xun’s A Madman’s Diary a reflection of China’s revolutionary history‚ explain how In Diary‚ who the madman was and what he represented. Also we will look at and explain what cannibalism represented. And then we will discuss how this can be applied to our lives. The Revolution of 1911 was a period of time during Chinese history which overthrew China’s
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Simpson’s and Philosophy In the chapter Thus Spake Bart: On Nietzsche and the Virtues of Being Bad‚ Mark T. Conard shows us why people believe Bart Simpson is similar to a philosophical theorist named Friedrich Nietzsche. Bart being the bad boy of the Simpson’s and Nietzsche being the bad boy of Philosophy. Conard says that Bart does not take on the chaos like Nietzsche says but he is just an empty being of bad actions. This argument is ridiculous; Bart Simpson is as creative as creative gets
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s first essay‚ The Good and Evil‚ Good and Bad is Nietzsche’s thoughts on the concepts of ‘good’ and ‘evil’. In describing the origins of ‘goodness’‚ Nietzsche points out that the concept of ‘good’ was created when an individual determined “un-egoistic” acts to be “good” (Nietzsche‚ §2). Furthermore‚ the idea of a ‘good’ act came from the point of view to which the deeds were done. However‚ he does not agree with this origin of “good”. Rather‚ he argues that “good” had not been
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Nietzsche also believed that people should not be a Christian. He believed that in being Christian‚ we were negating ourselves of the real elements needed as humans to attain fulfillment‚ such as sex‚ intellect‚ and creativity. He likened Christians to timid slaves who lacked the strength to get hold of what they sought after and instead adhered to the ideals that made a virtue of their spinelessness. Nietzsche believed that faith was the will to avoid knowing what is true. He believed that the
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notorious declaration that “God is dead” (first in The Gay Science‚ 1872). Secular thinking is a commonplace today‚ but in Nietzsche’s time this declaration was strikingly prophetic. The point of the claim is not so much to assert atheism: although Nietzsche was certainly an atheist‚ he was far from being a pioneer of European atheism. Rather‚ his observation is sociological‚ in a way: he means that Western culture no longer places God at the center of things. In another way‚ the term ‘sociological’
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In section 16‚ Nietzsche enlightens us with a provisional statement‚ and by his own accord a hypothesis concerning the origin of the "bad conscience". In terms that may exemplify a state of disbelief on the reader of the section‚ he states "It may sound rather strange and needs to be pondered‚ lived with‚ and slept on for a long time. I regard bad conscience as the serious illness that man was bound to contract under the stress of the most fundamental change he ever experienced-that change which
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perfection that man had since lost. Rome‚ too‚ embodied the perfection of human existence. Consequently‚ Nietzsche believed that the only way humanity could progress was by choosing “ascent” over “exhaustion.” This ascent would entail inequality between people‚ but‚ as Nietzsche often said‚ “‘what does not destroy me makes me strong; that which is falling should be pushed.’” How literally Nietzsche meant this is unclear‚ but quotations such as this were exactly the ones so often taken for their own
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built around the notions such as rational and irrational or as Nietzsche states‚ Apollonian and Dionysian. Europe was entering a new intellectual phase of questioning logic and imagination. Controversial topics such as religion and science were now being targeted in the Apollonian and Dionysian theories. Sigmund Freud constructs his own myths on the topic of logic and imagination when referring to dreams. Philologist Friedrich Nietzsche and psychologist Sigmund Freud both analyzed the theory of the
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