and Müller’s postmodernist reworking of the tragic canon‚ tragedy has remained an important site of cultural experimentation‚ negotiation‚ struggle‚ and change. A long line of philosophers—which includes Plato‚ Aristotle‚ Augustine‚ Voltaire‚ Hume‚ Diderot‚ Hegel‚ Schopenhauer‚ Kierkegaard‚ Nietzsche‚ Freud‚Benjamin‚ Camus‚ Lacan‚ and Deleuze—have analysed‚ speculated upon‚ and criticised the tragic form. In the wake of Aristotle’s Poetics (335 BCE)‚ tragedy has been used to make genre distinctions‚ whether at the scale
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Moral compass is a feeling which serves or guides a person’s knowledge of right and wrong‚ sense or intuition of correct virtues‚ morals‚ and ethics. It assists in making complex ethical choices and promotes consistency in these choices (The center for defined ethics: The case for a defined moral compass‚ n.d.). An organization has to ensure they have established a moral compass for everyone to abide by. It acts as a moral framework. We can do this by using 1700’s German philosopher Immanuel
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Everyone has different ideas about whether happiness is a state of being or a process. Arthur Schopenhauer claims that happiness is a state of mind that one must strive for‚ while Friedrich Nietzsche claims that happiness is the process of pursuing one’s desires. Martin Seligman’s concept of the three lives explains that happiness can be both a state of being and a process depending on which of the three lives one is experiencing. Both Schopenhauer’s and Nietzsche’s ideas on happiness relate to Seligman’s
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Will to power is prevalent in Nietzsche attitude toward the body but what kinds of will to power are there? Nietzsche argues that the body is motivated by tendencies‚ tendencies that are either sick or healthy will to powers. These tendencies relate to the drives one gets from their own will to power. Nietzsche believes that metaphysical tendencies for example‚ are motivated by sick instincts. Everybody has drives‚ and these drives are what drives the body to do one action or another. Our drive leads
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Kantian ethics is a deontological ethical theory first proposed by German philosopher Immanuel Kant. The theory‚ developed as a result of Enlightenment rationalism‚ is based on the view that the only intrinsically good thing is a good will; therefore an action can only be good if the maxim‚ or principle‚ behind it is duty to the moral law. Central to Kant’s construction of the moral law is the categorical imperative‚ which acts on all people‚ regardless of their interests or desires. Kant formulated
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January‚ 2013. Web. 9. Bhattacharya‚ Priyanka. “95 percent of our thoughts and decisions occur within the subconscious.” digitalmarket.asia. (August 27‚ 2012). Consulted the 5th of January‚ 2013. Web. 10. Essay on the freedom of the will‚ Arthur Schopenhauer. Dover publications‚ 2005. 103
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” Then the pessimists can’t believe everything in society. In their sights that human nature is selfish‚ the world is ugly .Whatever they do‚ they still can’t cover the truth that people is shame‚ love is unreal‚ life as a play. Such as Arthur Schopenhauer even said “Life is a desire‚ if it couldn’t be meet‚ we would pain‚ but if it could be meet‚ we would bored. Life is always swinging between the pains and
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isn’t art; to break down art to its core essence. Critical significance: Thesis is to be exploratory‚ challenging existing ideas and theories with possibilities of the alternative. Looking at the classical definitions of art that Kant and Schopenhauer have come up with‚ and explore how these definitions permit or disallow the moving image to be considered art‚ and why this is so. Themes and Context: Time period covered – Surrealist movement up till present day Social/political/cultural
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From the earliest civilizations arose an innate desire to survive in any given environment. Those that chose to fight death’s henchmen‚ famine and war‚ developed more advanced agricultural techniques and created complex social structures. The primal instinct to exist drove humanity to proliferate across the world‚ as many populations boomed‚ seemingly without bound. Throughout history‚ this fervent yearning for life was shared by the predominant masses‚ but the inevitable befell every person on earth
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Alexis Smith In a letter to his wife Alma‚ Gustav Mahler wrote‚ "There are only [Beethoven] and Richard [Wagner]- and after that nobody. Mark that!" (Comini‚390) Just as Beethoven revolutionized symphonic repertoire‚ playing a pivotal figure in the transition from classicism to romanticism‚ Wagner played a pivotal role in revolutionizing opera‚ taking it from a frivolous and ridiculous source of entertainment to a constantly evolving art-form which adopted an almost religious following. Beethoven
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