Beyond Good and Evil

Birmingham jail for leading a demonstration protesting segregation. King believed that everyone was created equal and that our laws should reflect our equal rights. He believed in the transcendence model of reality. In Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche writes about how he views

In a selection from “Beyond Good and Evil”, Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher and philologist critiques the secular and religious moralities as having similar origins. In the beginning of “Beyond Good and Evil”, Nietzsche says that if the world was “to refrain mutually from injury, from violence, from exploitation, and put one's will on a par with that of others”, it would result in somewhat of a sense in good conduct between people, if the conditions necessary to do so are given. Nietzsche

Basel at very young age. During his lifetime he published many masterpiece books like The Birth of Tragedy, The Gay Science, Beyond Good and Evil, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Nietzsche was an existentialist philosopher. Extentialism is all about an individual. Social institutions such as religion traditionally impose values on people who accept these values as inherently good and worthy of pursuing. However, in Nietzsche’s world, God is dead and can no longer provide

There is only a strong man in his eyes that the society has progressed from. In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche says that to keep our society, only powerful people should join together because respecting the weak causes the powerful to become weak, and will result in a weak society. In order to live, the strong crushes the weak to stay dominant

What is it that makes something good? What is it that makes something evil? These are questions that were asked by Nietzsche in his work, Beyond Good and Evil. Nietzsche’s answers to these questions were simple; good and evil are ambiguous because they are ultimately subjective. Thus, good and evil are the same thing; yet at the same time, they are complete opposites. Now, this statement is radically paradoxical, but I hope to open your mind up to this concept and explain the importance of recognizing

Because He is the 3-0 God, there cannot be any evil that would match His goodness. This would undermine His power, thus making Him not God. Because there is no equally powerful force of evil, we must extend our earthly experiences of evil to try to understand an otherworldly good. It is possible we can never fully understand the goodness of God, even if we make it to heaven to directly experience Him. Thomas Aquinas

Hannah Arndt announced the period of evil during the execution of Adolf Ishman of 1961, a Nazi officer who accuses Europe of the systematic destruction of the Jews. Arendt himself was a Jewish-German exile who was fighting in the most personal way to be a victim of the total destruction of European society. In a series of articles in The New Yorker, which later became Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Evil Channel, Arndt tried to deal with many questions that were not necessarily answered by

The logical problem of evil is often referred to as the inconsistent triad, this being that the following propositions; God is omnipotent, omnibenevolent and evil exists, are inconsistent. Also known as a reduction ad absurdum argument, whereby all three propositions cannot be true together. Theists, like Swinburne, come to the conclusion that the three propositions are compatible with one another, whereas atheists, like Mackie, believe that they are incompatible and therefore God does not exist

Boris Hennig PHL 201 February 22, 2015 Good vs. Evil: How do People Become Evil? Through the centuries, the words ‘good’ and ‘evil’ have been used extensively to describe certain things or situations. The subject of good versus evil is one that often causes great debate as the two terms are not facts, but entirely subjective. When people are born, we presume they are innocent, because as infants they are not capable of carrying out actions that are evil, or good. They are a clean slate, and as time

Nietzsche states clearly his stand that "Beyond Good and Evil... does not mean "Beyond Good and Bad"" (Nietzsche, page 143). Nietzsche makes the distinction between good/bad, and good/evil, by delineating the central idea that what is good and evil generally carries a morality to its definitions, whereas the former is essentially a social construct with slanted purposes and no true objectivity to its meanings. Nietzsche frames the idea that the values of good and bad, are fundamental to how we involve