Based on the essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid” written by Nicholas Carr‚ my opinion is that I agree with Carr’s thesis that the internet is interrupting human life. My opinion is that the internet is causing more problems than solving them. For example‚ I understand that the internet has websites like Wikipedia and other online sources that can help someone write a report on a war or side with a certain group about something. But‚ sometimes these articles on these websites can be changed by anyone
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Trying to assimilate differences under a similarity. (All desks are called desk.) 91) According to Nietzsche‚ what is truth? A movable set of metaphors‚ metonymies and anthropomorphisms. 92) According to Nietzsche‚ what does it mean to be truthful? To repeat the “lies of the herd.” Use the usual metaphors. 93) According to Nietzsche‚ how would one express truthfulness morally? Tell the conventionally lies. You are being moral if you uphold the metaphors. 94) Why
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time and life experiences to advance and mature a person’s genuine character. The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche preached to his fellow philosophers that they should pay more attention to human values. Human values can easily be defined as many things. Many philosophers of the time were focusing more on how society should be led‚ how we came to be‚ and of course religion. Friedrich Nietzsche branched out into new territory and new fields not ventured into before him. In Nietzsche’s work “On the
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Idealism This article is about the philosophical notion of idealism. For other uses‚ see Idealism (disambiguation) In philosophy‚ idealism is the group of philosophies which assert that reality‚ or reality as we can know it‚ is fundamentally mental‚ mentally constructed‚ or otherwise immaterial. Epistemologically‚ idealism manifests as a skepticism about the possibility of knowing any mind-independent thing. In a sociological sense‚ idealism emphasizes how human ideas — especially beliefs and values
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Cartesian Skepticism to Existentialism The nature of our reality and existence has been a topic of debate since at least the ancient Greeks. Do we exist? Why do we exist? Does it even matter? These are questions I will attempt to address thoroughly. Answers may not be comfortable or satisfactory‚ but it’s better to rip that band-aid off now than continue blindly in the dark. Rationalism and Empiricism have both attempted to prove existence‚ but at their most extremes they fall apart. Using
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1 He Who Fights Monsters “He who fights monsters must see to it that in the process he himself does not become a monster.” Friedrich Nietzsche raises a crucial point: in a search for justice‚ how can one assure that one will not be consumed by one’s cause? The novel The Round House by Louise Erdrich focuses on Joe Coutts’s quest for justice and on how narrowly he avoids Nietzsche’s prophesied fate. Since the tribe Joe belongs to has no authority to prosecute Linden‚ the man who rapes his
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the story‚ the structure begins near the end in which an autopsy is taken place of James dyer‚ who died in 1772. The climax of the story is not of his death‚ but rather the metamorphosis of his human suffering. This change connects with Friedrich Nietzsche theory of pain. "In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species". His theories of suffering‚ hardships‚ and pain allow us to understand the goodness of pain. The metamorphosis
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and painful death. This created the view that the previous Renaissance and Enlightenment models of reality were disintegrating indicating the decay of social morality. In Rhapsody on a Windy Night the first indication of deterioration arises in “a madman shakes a
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Essay The narrators in‚ Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground and Lu Xun’s Diary of a Madman‚ represent the harsh realities of the world that the public is either too afraid or too unwilling to hear. It seems as though both narrators themselves have characteristics that make them appear mad. Their rants are about either the barbaric nature and declination of society or the cannibalistic nature of the government. Whatever the case may be‚ they appear mad because the society in which they live in
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Monomania‚ as defined by the American Heritage Dictionary‚ is the pathological obsession with one subject or idea. In Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick‚ an obsession causes monomania in its main character. Through his actions‚ words‚ thoughts‚ and what others think about him‚ Captain Ahab is truly monomaniacal. Ahab is monomaniacal through his words and thoughts. "Talk not to me of blasphemy‚man; I’d strike the sun if it insulted me." This shows Ahab’s madness because only he would have the nerve
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