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    The Necessity of Art

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    counterfire.org/index.php/articles/book-reviews/6012-ernst-fischer-the-necessity-of-art-a-marxist-approach Gregson‚ L.(2005). Is Art Necessary? Retrieved 9 April‚ 2013 from http://www.studionotes.org/whyart.html Quesada‚ J. (2009). The Role of Art in Nietzsche ’s Philosphy. Retrieved 8 April‚ 2013 from http://jorbon.tripod.com/niet01.html Tolstoy‚ L. (1896). What is Art?. Retrieved 8 April‚ 2013 from http://www.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/361r14.html

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    existence. Nietzsche does this in his book The Gay Science book V #349 and Freud does this in Civilization and its Discontents chapter eighteen. In The gay science #349‚ Nietzsche discusses our will of power. He mentions how our will to live is our desire to want to be the best at what we do and have power. He writes “the great and small struggle always revolves around superiority‚ around growth and expansion‚ around power-in accordance with the will to power which is will of life”(Nietzsche pg. 292)

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    composer is better Richard Wagner? Or Georges Bizet? They both are know to be great composer but are completely different in their own ways. To Friedrich Nietzsche a german philosopher he believed Wagner to be a disease to music and disliked to hear his works. He deeply thinks that Wagner’s music is too brute‚ artificial‚ and unsophisticated. Nietzsche though is a big fan of Bizet who works he thought sounded natural and perfect like music should sound unlike the crudeness of Wagner’s. The orchestras

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    disbelievers include Immanuel Kant‚ Friedrich Nietzsche and David Hume‚ all whom argue that God does not indeed exist. Although God is considered dead and nonexistent by many‚ he does indeed exist because something must have existed in the beginning‚ he inspires goodness and faith in his subjects and he is perceived as the perfect being‚ who must exist in order to be considered perfect. It is impossible for something to exist without the existence of God‚ as

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    the butterfly

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    of things proves that the differences among things are not absolute " The first piece of work that we are going to look at is the paper by Kuang-Ming Wu: Dream in Nietzsche and Chuang Tzu . Even though Chuang Tzu and Nietzsche lived centuries apart‚ they‚ nevertheless‚ have much in common when it comes to dreams. For Nietzsche‚ reality is subjective and dream is objective. That is‚ what we see around us and do everyday are all products of our dreams. They are not correct descriptions of reality

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    characters that are utter derelicts to society‚ each one desperately hanging on to their hopeless dreams‚ each one hauntingly familiar to us. O’Neill‚ one of the more well-known twentieth century American playwrights‚ borrows from the thinking of Nietzsche to strip away the fluff of human personality‚ exposing the basic‚ eternally somber inner workings of the human psyche. In his plays‚ such as The Ice Man Cometh‚ O’Neill consistently portrays a classic nihilistic theme that there is no God‚ one of

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    earthly God-like authority.   The Metamorphosis is a masterful mix of horror and absurdity telling the story of the travelling salesman Gregor Samsa’s bizarre transformation from a man to a man-size cockroach. The story is a powerful exploration of alienation and is regarded as a landmark work of existential literature. However‚ its power lies in more than its obvious symbolism. Moreover‚ Kafkaesque is a word invented to describe a thing with a madness bizarre‚ irrational or overly complex quality.  

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    "The will to power." A strong statement made by the philosopher‚ Nietzsche. He explains this statement in his work‚ "Thus Spake Zarathustra." It can be found in multiple sections explaining different topics. When Nietzsche uses the phrase‚ "the will to power‚" he means the ability to extend oneself to the furthest of capabilities. He believes that humans have the ability to always do their best‚ and try their hardest to improve themselves. In this work‚ he says that humans must overcome themselves

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    Inside Job

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    2013. <http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/09/movie-inside-job.html> 6. "Inside Job (2010)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved March 1st‚ 2013. 7. Wicks‚ Robert. "Friedrich Nietzsche." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford.edu‚ 30 May 1997. Web. 05 Mar. 2013. <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche/>.

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    Nietzsche's Lightning

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    When describing the lightning and the flash‚ Nietzsche is alluding to the human tendency to disassociate two things that are related. This may be because lightning is the descriptor and the flash is the action‚ which leads humans to separate the two. Nietzsche describes this mental process as “taking the latter for an action… separates. strength from expression of strength.” The lightning and the flash is related to the lambs and the birds of prey because it is impossible to separate‚ and blame‚

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