Friedrich Nietzsche and Mahatma Gandhi‚ two mammoth political figures of their time‚ attack the current trend of society. Their individual philosophies and concepts suggest a fundamental problem: if civilization is so diseased‚ can we overcome this state of society and the sickness that plagues the minds of the masses in order to advance? Gandhi and Nietzsche attain to answer the same proposition of sickness within civilization‚ and although the topic of unrest among both may be dissimilar‚ they
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The Question: State your understanding of the philosophy of F. Nietzsche. What does he mean by saying "God is Dead"? Nietzsche’s philosophy is that of a radical view as it calls for the complete reevaluation of morals and blatantly attacks the Judeo-Christian tradition in modern society. He believed one should dare to become who they are. In order to ascertain one’s full potential as a human being‚ the ethic system of which by society runs‚ must be changed as it only
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s essay in On the Genealogy of Morals explores the origins and meaning to different moral concepts. Nietzsche does not believe that moral values are given; rather they emerge under certain conditions‚ promoting the survival and growth of a particular group of people. The way Nietzsche describes morality as “the slave revolt in morality began with resentment itself becomes creative and gives birth to values: the ressentiment of natures that are denied the true reaction‚ that of
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PLATO ON TRADITION AND BELIEF. 1.Socrates gets Laches to agree to a new definition of courage by arguing that not all cases of courage are a sort of endurance.He asks Laches if he would consider courage to be noble to which Laches replies he would.Socrates then asks him would he consider foolish endurance to be seen as hurtful‚to which Laches also agrees.With this in mind Laches agrees to a new definition of courage to include only wise endurance. 2/5 2.They conclude that knowledge
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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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How successful are Descartes’ arguments for the real distinction of mind from body? Upon which would you put the most weight? Using the arguments from doubt‚ from clear and distinct perceptions‚ and from simplicity‚ Descartes attempts to prove in “The Meditations” that the mind (that is the soul or the “thinking thing”) is distinct and separate from the body (the extended‚ unthinking thing). This view is now known as Cartesian Dualism. In this essay I will outline Descartes’ main arguments‚
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Cited: Reeve‚ C. D. C. A Plato reader: eight essential dialogues. Indianapolis‚ IN: Hackett Pub. Co.‚ 2012. Print.
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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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Liz Johnson December 12‚ 2012 Kant and Descartes “Idealism is the assertion there are none but thinking thing beings. All other things‚ which we believe are perceived in intuitions‚ are nothing but presentations in the thinking things‚ to which no object external to them in fact corresponds. Everything we see is just a construction of the mind.” (Prolegomena). Idealism maintains that there are no objects in the world‚ only minds. According to idealism‚ the existence of outer objects is
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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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