Nietzsche argues master and slave morality to differentiate between “good” and “bad”. Since there is “good” and “bad”‚ there is punishment in relative to that relationship which is also explained by Nietzsche. This essay is a reconstruction of slave’s morality and its relation to Nietzsche’s ideas of punishment. Also‚ there will be an alternative strategy for punishment mention by consulting what is the good in life. In Nietzsche’s first essay‚ he discusses the difference between “good” and “evil”
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Running head: Nietzsche Header: Philosophy Name: University: Course: Tutor: Date: Nietzsche Philosophizing with a Hammer. In philosophizing with a hammer‚ Friedrich Nietzsche meant that the assortment of stories that constitute the dominant representations of life and our world. This philosophy is brought
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Nietzsche‚ Birth of Tragedy In Friedrich Nietzsche’s work The Birth of Tragedy‚ he argues that during the times of the ancient Greeks the artistic fusion between the Apollonian way of thinking and the Dionysian way of thinking lead to the creation of the greatest works of tragic art and music. Nietzsche believes that society needs to develop a new art form that recognizes the balance between the apollonian and Dionysian influence to reaffirm human existence. Nietzsche uses the Greek Gods‚ Apollo
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Layne Johnson Dr. Scott Austin PHIL 251-502 December 6‚ 2011 Nietzsche and the Ascetic Ideal According to Friedrich Nietzsche in his third essay of “On the Genealogy of Morals” the ascetic ideal is nothing more than a false sense of moral codes and boundaries set to fill what would be an otherwise void part of the human mind. Nietzsche believes that any true philosopher will reject the notion of ascetic ideals as a creation of the misguided masses of society. He believed that to make sense of
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evolution. And the great philosopher Nietzsche is also one to disagree with Craig’s argument. However‚ even though Nietzsche and other philosophers provide many examples that help go against this argument‚ William Lone Craig has proven that the existence of moral values exist and therefore proves the existence of God. To help prove this argument‚ you must first take a look the other side from the important‚ well know philosopher Nietzsche himself. Nietzsche gives many reasons that lead to the nonexistence
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have to get rid of one or the other‚ but Nihilism theories seem to have a lot less explanatory power than do dualistic ones to me. In this paper I will argue that the clearest difference between Descartes and Nietzsche here is that whereas Descartes thought that ideas are passive‚ Nietzsche thought the opposite. Well‚ Descartes tries to prove the existence of God‚ which is the condition of establishing/ensuring an external world‚ including inter-subjectivity‚ in his view. God is a precondition of
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been attempted by successive writers. Jean-Paul Sartre and Friedrich Nietzsche both attempted to replace traditional morality with an ethics based on authenticity. This essay will discuss some of the initial similarities in their approaches‚ and identify where and why their approaches diverge. In the course of this examination‚ a number of prima facie objections to their theories will be examined‚ and I will argue that Nietzsche goes much further to create a positive morality than is usually thought
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An issue in today’s society is discrimination. For consistency I will define discrimination as anything that denies a group of people from any universal privileges. A few examples of this would be racism‚ LGBT (Lesbian‚ Gay‚ Bi‚ Transgender) rights‚ and sexism. These issue have been present through all points in American and World History‚ normally putting the white adult heterosexual male as the most privileged and discriminations putting everyone else below him. In the twenty-first century measures
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Nietzsche And Marx Foresee Modern Alienation Beyond typical philosophers solely focused on acquiring knowledge‚ Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche were equally dedicated to actualizing their vision of a better society and way of life. Before our present state of modernism‚ Nietzsche and Marx were already prophesizing our societal flaws based on past wrongs done to humanity. The Spanish Inquisition‚ the African Slave Trade‚ and the Holocaust are all clear testaments to the detrimental effect that
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Nietzsche Essay Nietzsche begins the second essay‚ which is an exploration of the origins of guilt and morality‚ by presenting the problem of humankind: breeding an animal with the ‘prerogative to promise’. Humans must actively forget things in order to cope with life – without doing this we could not have mental order or any semblance of happiness. Forgetting things‚ then‚ is a strength‚ but is also the natural tendency of our minds. Memory is not the passive retention of impressions that many
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