Friedrich Nietzsche and Karl Marx were intellectuals with vastly different world views and opinions on how things should be run but the one matter in which they would both agree leaves a bad taste in their mouths is Christianity. Nietzsche see Christianity as a blight upon humans‚ something holding us back from our fullest potential. Karl Marx does not necessarily see Christianity as the great evil that Nietzsche makes it out to be‚ but he would agree that complicated monolith that is Christianity
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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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might not be so far off. Both Nietzsche and Dr. King were thought of as “radical thinkers‚” and are still thought of as “radical thinkers” till this day‚ for completely separate reasons. But I believe that their motivations/motives are the reason why their views in morality are equivalent in seriousness to; fundamentally the same. Even though these two great “critical thinkers” have opposing views in certain important issues‚ such as Christianity‚ I believe that if Nietzsche were to have lived during
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Immanuel Kant Summery: There are two faculties of the mind: theoretical reason and practical reason. Theoretical reason allows us to answer the question‚ "What can I know?"‚ while practical reason allows us to answer the question‚ "What ought I to do?". For Kant‚ practical reason issues a duty to respect its law. That is‚ morality is not rooted in consequences (consequentialism)‚ but rather in sheer duty (deontological ethics). For Kant‚ practical reason issues a "categorical imperative"
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Morality) Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche‚ a German philosopher thought up of the idea that there are two moralities; The master and slave morality. These define a person by there actions to there world around them and how they handle certain situations they encounter throughout their natural life. I believe he chose these two because they seem to be strong opposites and there are rational. The first morality Nietzsche writes about is the master morality. Nietzsche defined master morality as the
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character who tries to seek for dignity‚ but he has some flaws holding him back. Holden is passive and unwilling to examine himself and seek his own dignity. Three reasons for his tragic flaw are: his craziness‚ his immaturity‚ and his phoniness and madman stuff. The first reason for Holden’s flaw is his craziness. He acts this way because he is not normal like others. Something that he repeats constantly throughout the novel is‚ “He is the biggest phony.” This quote shows how Holden thinks and acts
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meaning we can come to‚ rendering us philosophically immobile. Grappling with the demands of reality while keeping up with the pace of post-modernity proves to be a daunting responsibility‚ but alas‚ it is a chore we must reconcile ourselves with. As Nietzsche proclaims‚ “We remain unknown to ourselves‚ we seekers of knowledge‚ even to ourselves: and with good reason‚”[1] he begins to assemble the foundations for what would be a thorough investigation - - a search‚ for that sense of comfort we associate
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Nietzsche’s rejection of traditional morality Zarathustra’s Prologue What does Zarathustra tell us about the challenges of leading people who have become too comfortable and uncritical? According to Zarathustra‚ he said that he did not want to be spared by their best enemies nor even the people they love. He said that leading uncritical and comfortable people within the society is hypocritical and therefore those leading such people feel ashamed of themselves. He said that such people should not
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In “On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense‚” Nietzsche questions the purpose and existence of the human race. He points out that humans strive to be educated and are taught that knowledge is power. They believe that they are the superior life form on earth due the plethora of information they discover and believe is true. When stepping back and viewing these thoughts‚ as Nietzsche does‚ readers are forced to realize that these ways of thinking about humans versus other life forms‚ is nonsense and
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The Tell-Tale Heart In his narrative poem The Tell-Tale heart‚ Edgar Allen Poe tells the story of an insane madman who is in love with an old man’s eye. The story begins with the madman telling us how he loves the old man but wants to kill him because of his eye. The old man’s eye is like none other and resembles a vulture’s eye. And Poe instills his poem with the same despair experienced by the narrator by using characteristics that are typical of gothic literature such as‚ High Emotion‚ Mysterious
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