Dionysus’ Mirror: Valerie Nguyen Reflections on Becoming “Truths” Wed. 3-4 – Phil. 184 and “the World” as Becoming Edoardo Zavarella In The Will to Power‚ an expansive and stylistically convoluted accumulation of Nietzsche’s private reflections‚ we encounter the following train of thought‚ symbolically embedded within a passage that
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of things proves that the differences among things are not absolute " The first piece of work that we are going to look at is the paper by Kuang-Ming Wu: Dream in Nietzsche and Chuang Tzu . Even though Chuang Tzu and Nietzsche lived centuries apart‚ they‚ nevertheless‚ have much in common when it comes to dreams. For Nietzsche‚ reality is subjective and dream is objective. That is‚ what we see around us and do everyday are all products of our dreams. They are not correct descriptions of reality
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“The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism” written by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti highlights the main ideas behind the futurist movement that he introduced himself. In the beginning of the manifesto‚ Marinetti and his friends are awake at a late hour of the night and they hear the sound of automobiles pass by. Marinetti encourages everyone to test this new magnificent machine even though there was a sense of mystery and risk about it. Marinetti explains how they were so overcome by the madness and
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"The will to power." A strong statement made by the philosopher‚ Nietzsche. He explains this statement in his work‚ "Thus Spake Zarathustra." It can be found in multiple sections explaining different topics. When Nietzsche uses the phrase‚ "the will to power‚" he means the ability to extend oneself to the furthest of capabilities. He believes that humans have the ability to always do their best‚ and try their hardest to improve themselves. In this work‚ he says that humans must overcome themselves
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characters that are utter derelicts to society‚ each one desperately hanging on to their hopeless dreams‚ each one hauntingly familiar to us. O’Neill‚ one of the more well-known twentieth century American playwrights‚ borrows from the thinking of Nietzsche to strip away the fluff of human personality‚ exposing the basic‚ eternally somber inner workings of the human psyche. In his plays‚ such as The Ice Man Cometh‚ O’Neill consistently portrays a classic nihilistic theme that there is no God‚ one of
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his father ’s murderer‚ Claudius. It is the flaws within the state of Denmark‚ which have led to the previous kings murder. Hamlet persuades the new king‚ Claudius‚ into believing that he is a madman‚ convincing the people around him as well‚ in order to take revenge. Prince Hamlet is portrayed as a madman throughout the play‚ however Prince Hamlet only pretends to be mad. Within the first scene of the play‚ Hamlet encounters his father ’s ghost. This is not a symbol of his madness‚ as the ghost
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2013. <http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/09/movie-inside-job.html> 6. "Inside Job (2010)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved March 1st‚ 2013. 7. Wicks‚ Robert. "Friedrich Nietzsche." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford.edu‚ 30 May 1997. Web. 05 Mar. 2013. <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/>.
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When describing the lightning and the flash‚ Nietzsche is alluding to the human tendency to disassociate two things that are related. This may be because lightning is the descriptor and the flash is the action‚ which leads humans to separate the two. Nietzsche describes this mental process as “taking the latter for an action… separates. strength from expression of strength.” The lightning and the flash is related to the lambs and the birds of prey because it is impossible to separate‚ and blame‚
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Nietzsche witnessed the decay of institutional Christianity‚ claiming that “churches are tombs of God” and “we are all God’s murderers”‚ as more people turned to atheism and had a disbelief in God in general. He accepted Kant’s critique of pure reason but rejected his one argument for God and freedom of the will as postulates of practical reason. Nietzsche refers to Charles Darwin‚ who developed the theory of evolution of a species
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King‚ Answering letters from relatives who bore me. We’re told not to count‚ but the days mount here Like thousands of identical stitches Resentfully sewn into a sampler‚ Or a cricket bat made out of matches. Nights find me scoring walls like a madman‚ Totting up runs: one more day in the can. Rosie Jackson. Higher Unseen Poetry -Example Response ‘In the Can’ This poem is very interesting in the inmate’s attitude towards crime. He does not
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