In late 2015‚ Mr. Steven Pinker published an editorial with the Boston Globe titled‚ “The moral imperative to bioethics”‚ which concerned me quite a bit. Mr. Pinker’s editorial was over the new technique of CRISPR-Cas9. This technique allows one‚ relatively cheaply and easily‚ to go through a genome‚ target certain undesirable genetic sequences‚ cut those sequences out‚ and implant a new genetic sequence of ones choosing. While this sounds amazing at first‚ and something that Mr. Pinker wants
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Chelsea Long Philosophy 100-005 Prompt 2 Final Essay Even though they were separated by thousands of years‚ hundreds of miles‚ and different cultures‚ the philosophical views of Friedrich Nietzsche and Plato can be examined and weighed against each other in many different ways. Friedrich Nietzsche‚ born in 1844‚ was a German philosopher whose main goal was to erect a new image for the people and to create a free spirit in them. Plato‚ born in 427 B.C.‚ was a Greek philosopher whose main goal
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Freud and Nietzsche on Human Nature and Society After intensive analyzation of reading Civilization and It’s Discontents by Sigmund Freud and Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche‚ I feel as if both Freud and Nietzsche offered virtually identical views of human nature and of the society in which they lived. In my paper I intend to prove how this is so. The Freudian view of humanity is quite pessimistic. According to his ideology‚ people act only in order to satisfy their needs
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right‚ wrong‚ and the basic belief of morals but what if these morals were simply a figment of imagination created by a single human and simply accepted? People around the world make decisions according to their beliefs and morals every day. Philosophers since the beginning of time have attempted to prove or disprove the existence of natural law which is what morals are based on. Some of the most significant philosophers to the topic are Aquinas and Nietzsche who specify the two sides of the argument
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Hercules Through the Eyes of Nietzsche What is Art? This has been the question of many generations‚ and because Art is ever changing‚ and perceived in many ways‚ it will inevitably be a question in the back of our minds for years to come. Frederick Nietzsche may very well be the face of who really knows what art is‚ and boy did he know his stuff. Nietzsche expounds upon what the Greeks were just surfacing upon decades ago; The Greek Tragedy. What is so significant about tragedy you may ask; well
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state‚ but always striving for something more. Humans strive toward becoming subjective. For Kierkegaard‚ life is a transformation from essential to existential. Nietzsche sees man similar to this‚ He calls man a “bridge" rather than an “end". The important part of a man is his potential. Man is striving‚ but for something different. Nietzsche says that for man Ubermensch‚ the ideal man or Superman‚ is the goal. It’s a representation of man at a constant battle to overcome itself. The Superman must
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Introduction How can theories be used to explain the concept of resilience? Or‚ in this case‚ how can Kohlberg’s theory of moral development be used to explain the concept of resilience in David’s life from The Lost Boy? Kohlberg’s Moral Development theory was chosen due to David’s struggle growing up in a house with abuse. Throughout the story David has trouble with making “right” and “wrong” decisions. David faces his choices and why he has made them throughout The Lost Boy (Pelzer‚ 2002)
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Brandon Courtney 3/2//16 Section 119 Hill Annotated Bibliography Rough Draft Mortensen‚ Torill. “Forever a Moral Subject”. Game Studies.org. Volume 12‚ Issue 2. GameStudies December 2012. Web. February 26 2016. http://gamestudies.org/1202/articles/mortensen_book_review Torill discusses the book “The Ethics of Computer Games” by Miguel Sicart‚ and the basis for which it was written‚
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this essay will not be taking issue with these criticisms I feel they are the result of piecemeal reading. There is this tendency to jump on passionate thinkers especially those who write in such a way that they can be reduced to catch phrases i.e. Nietzsche: “God is dead”. The first lesson learnt as a student of philosophy is to hold off on criticism until you have begun to grasp the thinker and his thought as a whole. Any philosopher worth his mettle will be working within a dynamic but defined system
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In this essay I will summarize how the philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault have recorded how the meanings of certain concepts have changed through history‚ paying close attention to the texts of Nietzsche ’s "Good and Evil‚ Good and Bad" and Foucault ’s "The Insane". I will also suggest what I believe are the philosophical lessons that they think we can draw from recognizing these changes. In the chapter from his book Madness & Civilization‚"The Insane"‚ Michel Foucault charts
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