the will to assume responsibility for oneself.” (Nietzsche. Twilight of the Idols. Trans. Hollingdale. Sect. 38). Everyone desires freedom but everyone cannot handle the responsibilities of freedom. I will compare J.S. Mill’s views on the social function of freedom with that of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s characters from both‚ the novel Notes From Underground and the excerpt; The Grand Inquisitor‚ also drawing supplementary arguments from Friedrich Nietzsche‚ while expressing my views alongside. Mill’s core
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– Fyodor Dostoevsky carefully constructs the central figures in Crime and Punishment as multifaceted and a product of two conflicting halves. This leaves the reader with the problem of having to decipher how we ought to understand these characters and what Dostoevsky is trying to say through the presentation of doubled characters. Does Dostoevsky force us to choose to identify Raskolnikov as either a genius or a louse and Sonya as a pious women or a defiled prostitute? Why does Dostoevsky allow Sonya
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Introduction Our presentation is about Friedrich Nietzsche who was one of the most important and influential modern thinkers of nineteenth century for his notions of inexistentialism‚ post-modernism‚ and post-structuralism; but before talking about him‚ I would like to tell you a brief introduction of postmodernism and how this philosopher took these concepts to explain his ideologies. One of the main characteristics of postmodern thinking is that the world is seen as much more complex and an
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* Dostoevsky and Parricide: A Summary * I summarised our group’s discussion into bullet-points‚ so that it is much easier to skim-read and understand. Main points from the essay: Freud analysed Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karmazou” and categorised into 4 facets: 1) creative artists least doubtful 2) neurotic most readily assailable 3) moralist 4) sinner - pg 179 para2 Dostoevsky’s complex personality is presented as being 1) quantitative and 2) qualitative
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some critics have seen Dostoevsky’s plots as chaotic and disorganized others have found them “Gothic” (perverse passion‚ intrigue‚ murder‚ suicide) and aimed at cheap effects; Dostoevsky’s characters unnatural‚ schematic‚ and contrived. pessimism Dostoevsky develops his psychological dramas in the abstract‚ without a natural background. Multitude of minor characters and subplots‚ inserted anecdotes‚ philosophic dialogues‚ the narrator’s essayistic and other digressions is hardly "well structured."
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explain how this differed from previous evolutionary theories. Charles Darwin (1809-1882) was a British naturalist who is famously associated with the term ‘natural selection’ which he believed was the process that caused species to evolve. In this essay I aim to explain Darwin’s theory of evolution through natural selection‚ contrast it with other similar theories set before it and then an overall conclusion. Darwin originally studied medicine at Edinburgh University but had an interest in
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eventual victory of the “slaves revolt” in morality. In “First Essay: ‘Good and Evil’‚ ‘Good and Bad‚’” which is part of the work On the Genealogy of Morality‚ Nietzsche outlines the two types of morality--aristocratic and slave--and describes the eventual overtaking of aristocratic morality by slave morality through the “slaves revolt.” Nietzsche claims that master morality came first‚ with its defining characteristics being the morality of the masters‚ nobles‚ and warriors who saw themselves and their
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This essay aims to analyse the representation of heaven and hell‚ both in form and content within Feodor Dostoevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’ and John Donne selected poems. We will see that the characters experience hellish nightmares‚ torment and feelings of longing in order to deliver the humanist message: we are all connected and that despite our perceptions or ideas of transcendence‚ it our place amongst others that restores our humanity. Those that place themselves in the part of a “superman”
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same occasion every time for all mankind‚ then it acquires at last the same meaning for men it would have if it were the sole necessary image and if the relationship of the original nerve stimulus to the generated image were a strictly causal one” (Nietzsche 6). He also states that everything‚ no matter what it is (a feeling‚ a tangible item‚ or even a scientific law)‚ has a different aesthetic meaning to every person. So‚ essentially‚ every person defines his or her own universe. The beginning of
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Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche was born on October 15th 1844 in the small town close to Leipzig. His father was a Lutheran pastor and former teacher. In 1849‚ his father died of a brain ailment and the family then moved to Naumburg where they lived with Nietzsche’s grandmother. In 1864‚ at the age of twenty‚ Nietzsche began his studies in theology and classical philology at the University of Bonn. After just one semester‚ Nietzsche halted his theological studies and lost his faith. He
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