what is dictated to them through Christianity. Blackburn explores the reasons behind this reliance upon the handbook’ of religion from which people form their ethical beliefs‚ and features an attack on Christianity by Friedrich Nietzsche’ to support his argument. Nietzsche states that it is only those who are at the bottom who seek their salvation in it’‚ that the highest good is regarded as unattainable‚ as a gift‚ as "grace." Blackburn introduces the notion that the threat or fear of punishment
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In the second part of “The Stranger‚” Meursault is on trial for the assassination of an Arab man. Camus simply utilizes the trial as a metaphor for life to promote his notion of the absurd. Camus believes that the absurdity of our inherently meaningless life is our quest to find meaning or validity in a world where there is no absolute truth. Similar to our ambition to find meaning in our life‚ the trial attempts to search for Meursault’s motive to murder the seemingly innocent Arab. As the case
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Civilization and its discontents. New York: Cape & Smith‚ 1930. Print. Marx‚ Karl‚ and Friedrich Engels. On literature and art. Moscow: Progress Publishers‚ 1976. Print. Marx‚ Karl‚ Friedrich Engels‚ and Ellen Meiksins Wood. The Communist manifesto / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. New York: Monthly Review Press‚ 1998. Print. Ngugi‚ Wa Thiong’O. Devil on the cross. London: Heinemann‚ 1982. Print. Nietzsche‚ Friedrich Wilhelm. The gay science. Dover ed. Mineola‚ N.Y.: Dover Publications‚ 2006. Print.
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The Virtual Dialectic: Rethinking The Matrix and its Significance David J. Gunkel Northern Illinois University Rather than designating the choice between good and evil‚ my Either/Or designates the choice by which one chooses good and evil or rules them out.1 The debates and decisions surrounding virtual reality‚ cyberspace‚ and other forms of computer-mediated communication have been‚ like so much philosophical reasoning within the Western tradition‚ organized around antinomies. One of the
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their own group as “good” and define others as bad and untouchable. Nietzsche has once described this human psychology: “to this rule that a concept denoting political superiority always resolves itself into a concept denoting superiority of soul … that only here did the human soul in a higher sense acquire depth and become evil---and these are the two basic respects in which man has hitherto been superior to other beasts!” Nietzsche thinks that this kind of egocentricity and its development is what
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. . “(The Genealogy of Morals). Nietzsche believed that man created religion to feel guilty. He believed that we’re all animals who are violent and without a purpose. However‚ as an outlet for our cruel nature‚ man created a set of “morals” which we used to create a false sense of purpose
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Chapter 32 1. How did territorial expansion affect Native Americans in North America? The Native Americans lost their “spirit”. Native Americans were considered savages and were either killed or conformed to the American control. The Indians lost their identity due to the American expansion. 2. How were the contradictions of economic expansion expressed by American artists? Walt Whitman linked the romantic‚ transcendental‚ and realist movements together to revolutionize literature. The American
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orthodox views. Although Social Darwinism did not advocate heathenism‚ it collided with the belief of Creationism and divine intervention‚ by evolution. Nietzsche was avidly influenced by Gobineau‚ and obviously held similar views with Social Darwinist principles of the fit’s’ right to dominate the weak’. Due to promotion of such ideas by Nietzsche‚ society began to believe the phrase that might was right’‚ which eventuated in
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Estela Garcia June 10‚ 2014 PHI 2010 Module 3: Chapter 13 & 15. 1. Explain and evaluate the notions of Karma‚ samsara‚ and Nirvana. - Karma‚ samsara and nirvana fall under the religion of Hinduism. When all of our actions bring consequences‚ either in this life or the next is referred as karma. Samsara means the cycle of birth and death. Us humans are basically good‚ but are caught up in a cycle of pure desire and also of suffering that is a direct result of ignorance and of the
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558 Freud‚ Sigmund‚ Jokes And Their Relation To The Unconscious‚ trans. John Strachey‚ N.Y.‚ 1960. Carr‚ Jimmy‚ The Naked Jape‚ http://www.bppa-online.org/sites/bppa-online.org/files/symposium/humour.pdf Plato Laws‚ 11: 935e John Lippitt (1992) Nietzsche‚ Zarathustra and the status of laughter‚ British Journal of Aesthetics‚ 32‚ no. 2‚ pp. 39-49.
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