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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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    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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    is very close to the word resentment in English but is slightly different. The context in which Nietzsche uses the word ‘ressentiment’ is a psychological state of people that are conscious of their own inferiority and turn it to hatred towards external anger. It is a feeling that arises from the incapability of one’s success and hence finding external factors to blame for this incapability. Nietzsche aligns this concept with the weak people or slaves which are inferior to the noble‚ strong

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    In “Beyond Good & Evil”‚ Friedrich Nietzsche analyzes the role of a figure he creates called the Free Spirit. In today’s technological day and age‚ the world is filled with followers and people who simply go with the grain as opposed to going against it and forgoing what everyone else is doing. On the off hand‚ those who do go against the crowd evidently stand out‚ and arguably‚ they live a better life in search of their own greatness as opposed to the concept of the ‘common good’. In the book‚ the

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    history‚ there have been many philosophers who have believed that humans do not have free will. However‚ inevitably humans do have freedom of will‚ whether individuals may believe so or not. A famous nineteenth century philosopher named Friedrich Nietzsche believed that human beings were not free. He believed human beings do not have freedom of will‚ rather that humans do not have a choice to make. Furthermore‚ he believed that everything is predestined for each human in society. Moreover‚ everything

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    Views on women -Nietzsche wrote "Women are essentially unpeaceful" and "Man is for woman a means; the purpose is always a child. But what is woman for man?" The answer to this question (as well as the question you pose) is difficult to ascertain and there are a number of opposing and complex views on how he regarded women. -Hence‚ Derrida claims that for Nietzsche‚ there is no eternal essence of womanhood. -Nietzsche’s view of women is explicitly based upon their role as potential mothers -

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    The Antichrist Analysis Nietzsche sets out to denounce and illegitimize not only Christianity itself as a belief and a practice‚ but also the ethical-moral value system which modern western civilization has inherited from it in the Antichrist. One of the most important of these ideas is that Christianity has made people nihilistic and weak by regarding pity and related sentiments as the highest virtues. Nietzsche traces the origin of these values to the ancient Jews who lived under Roman occupation

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    Hegelian dialectic - professed that mankind was developing in an upward direction‚ becoming more angelic as it were. Man’s moral laws were more advanced‚ as support for democracy and equal rights were beginning to become popular. However‚ Friedrich Nietzsche believed that mankind was entering a downward spiral towards complete decadence. Modern man‚ with its "advanced" morality‚ was‚ in truth‚ decaying on the inside. Claims of morality merely masked modern man’s decay: he is veiled behind moral formulas

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    Nietzsche begins by tearing apart the philosopher and his views. They idolize concepts and threaten the life of anything they worship. In Nietzsche’s opinion‚ once the philosophers got to these concepts nothing managed to escape alive. In response Nietzsche says‚ “that which is‚ does not become; that which becomes‚ is not.” Nietzsche explains that the philosophers all believe in the which is‚ however they fail to understand so instead they search for a reason why it withholds itself from them. Finally

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    Nietzsche also talks about the origin of the noble conception of good and bad in terms of the linguistics during (Genealogy‚ I §4-5) where he comments that the word for bad in German Schlecht is practically identical to the German word for plain Schlicht with him saying that this indicates that in the noble morality the bad is only that which is common or simple but it is not meant in a derogatory way it is meant only so to separate them from the nobles or the good. He comments further that he believes

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