Nietzsche On Alienation Analysis
Nietzsche And Marx Foresee Modern Alienation
Beyond typical philosophers solely focused on acquiring knowledge, Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche were equally dedicated to actualizing their vision of a better society and way of life. Before our present state of modernism, Nietzsche and Marx were already prophesizing our societal flaws based on past wrongs done to humanity. The Spanish Inquisition, the African Slave Trade, and the Holocaust are all clear testaments to the detrimental effect that separatism and alienation have on all humans alike. Marx and Nietzsche voice the changes that need to be made in order for humanity to finally push itself another crucial step closer to equality and freedom.
Marx is a harsh critic towards the …show more content…
In the work force the addition of job benefits and new positions seem to aid the worker's quality of life, when in actuality it is only further establishing the bosses reign. Similarly, in Nietzsche's study of right and wrong, he finds that human morality has also become a distraction from the unknown. Nietzsche shows us how we use our morals to make the world around us explainable. The human race, especially philosophers are victims to the idea of "rationally at all costs a self-deception on the part of philosophers and moralists to think that they can escape from décadence merely by making war against it" (Twilight, 16). In our attempt to make things right, being politically collect has risen to the top of our priority list. Although political correctness isn't a direct solution to freedom and immediate uprising, both Marx and Nietzsche would agree that destroying societal indoctrinated terms and replacing them with accurate language would reduce some alienation that is far too prevalent among common workers. Political correctness calls attention to the same fundamental flaw in out labor force of classification. When we say we're receiving mail from a postMAN and getting arrested by a policeMAN we alienate all female officers and post-women. Although strong upheaval to change such names may be seen as oversensitivity, a female police officer may feel like she is in a different working environment from her peers. Nietzsche collides with Marx over the issue of classification, proving that even decisions of personal morality further separate our
Beyond typical philosophers solely focused on acquiring knowledge, Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche were equally dedicated to actualizing their vision of a better society and way of life. Before our present state of modernism, Nietzsche and Marx were already prophesizing our societal flaws based on past wrongs done to humanity. The Spanish Inquisition, the African Slave Trade, and the Holocaust are all clear testaments to the detrimental effect that separatism and alienation have on all humans alike. Marx and Nietzsche voice the changes that need to be made in order for humanity to finally push itself another crucial step closer to equality and freedom.
Marx is a harsh critic towards the …show more content…
In the work force the addition of job benefits and new positions seem to aid the worker's quality of life, when in actuality it is only further establishing the bosses reign. Similarly, in Nietzsche's study of right and wrong, he finds that human morality has also become a distraction from the unknown. Nietzsche shows us how we use our morals to make the world around us explainable. The human race, especially philosophers are victims to the idea of "rationally at all costs a self-deception on the part of philosophers and moralists to think that they can escape from décadence merely by making war against it" (Twilight, 16). In our attempt to make things right, being politically collect has risen to the top of our priority list. Although political correctness isn't a direct solution to freedom and immediate uprising, both Marx and Nietzsche would agree that destroying societal indoctrinated terms and replacing them with accurate language would reduce some alienation that is far too prevalent among common workers. Political correctness calls attention to the same fundamental flaw in out labor force of classification. When we say we're receiving mail from a postMAN and getting arrested by a policeMAN we alienate all female officers and post-women. Although strong upheaval to change such names may be seen as oversensitivity, a female police officer may feel like she is in a different working environment from her peers. Nietzsche collides with Marx over the issue of classification, proving that even decisions of personal morality further separate our