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The slave mortality presented by Nietzsche in his Genealogy of Morals is prevalent within modern literature. The dark effects of this morality have crept far beyond the general view of the elite class and into our writing. This is not much of a surprise since literature reflects the world and our view of the world within it. Unfortunately, its impact on our society is shown by its prevalence within modern writing. This morality allows the author to focus on the “evil enemy” (Nietzsche 39) instead

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical work that Nietzsche wrote in an innovative way by presenting philosophy as fiction by telling a story instead of presenting it like other philosophers in a factual and informative way. Nietzsche named his character Zarathustra after the founder of the ancient Persian religion, Zoroastrianism and not founders of Western civilization religions because he wanted to show that Judeo-Christianity was flawed in their teachings and practices. The first theme that

within modern thought is German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, a polarizing thinker whose text Thus Spoke Zarathustra has garnered abundant acclaim for its encapsulation of a shift within late nineteenth-century Western thought. Nietzsche’s personal history significantly affected the development of his philosophy as exemplified through the rhetoric, literary style and speeches found within Thus Spoke Zarathustra. This report will follow the origins of Friedrich Nietzsche, the contextualization of his

Nietzsche regards free will not only to be a philosophical error but also to be a falsification in society (651). Nietzsche suggests that any particular “will” is going to be strong or weak to some actual degree and points out that with “will” there are thoughts and our thoughts can flow and change just as things in the universe flow and change (651). According to Nietzsche, the underlying force driving all change is will and it boils down to a drive for freedom and domination over other things (651)

pragmatic nature of the individual. I will investigate further on the reasons why this is the case. My assumptions in examples below are based on an application of the Nietzsche’s solution on a reasonably mentally stable individual. First, let’s assume Friedrich Nietzsche’s definition of nihilism. According to Nietzsche: 1) “Every belief, every considering-something-true, is necessarily false because there simply is no true world”. “…That there is no truth, that there is no absolute nature of things nor

In Karl Marx’s “On the Jewish Question” and Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Genealogy of Morals, both criticize political liberalism. Marx and Nietzsche agree that political liberalism doesn’t take into context what mankind is really like. They acknowledge that although political liberalism advocates that all man is free and equal, that isn’t necessarily the case. Despite this similarity, they have slightly different views on how applications of liberalism affects man in general. For Nietzsche, liberalism

Marilynne Robinson’s Essay “Darwinism” Introduction to Christian Theology REL 103 Kaitlyn Spencer Marilynne Robinson is a Pulitzer-winning novelist who has graced us with her essays found in The Death of Adam. Robinson gives the read the feeling of being much more educated than he or she really is. These essays provide readers with different ways of discussing history, religion and society. They, although difficult to comprehend at times, are flawlessly argued and, throughout

I believe that Karl Marx and Frederick Engel and W.E.B Du Bois are both right. They both had one specific goal in mind; social equality. Karl Marx and Frederick Engel wanted to close the gap between the ruling class and the working class. The working class were being overworked and underpaid while working in factories. Marx and Engels wanted equality in the society by advocating for a communist society, where all people have equal access to resources. W.E.B Du Bois wanted African Americans to have

Nietzsche and the Prophet According to Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the meaning of human existence is to make room for the “Superman”: a superhuman who perseveres in its capacity for unlimited self-creation. (Pg. 49)[1] In order for humankind to embrace its self-creative nature and allow for the transcendence into this superhuman condition, however, we must first learn to destroy our present tables of values; it is our desperate adherence to traditional (religious) values

Man Must Dominate Nature and the Environment      How shall we deal with the environment? is an ethical question much discussed, but rarely answered with any well-thought-out justifications. Rather, individuals attempting to answer it have often made claims stating that certain things are "obvious." In this paper, I intend to analyze one of these ethical principles which is considered to be inherently obvious. For every culture has regarded certain things as "obvious" and needing no further