Ressentiment

Friedrich Nietzsche and Thrasymachus both depict their account of justice and morality. On the Genealogy of morals and The Republic of Plato share similarities but express different views on the genesis of justice and morality. The first account on the genesis of justice and morality, Thrasymachus expresses that justice and morality are naturally beneficial to the ruling class. In a similar manner, Nietzsche states that the genesis of justice and morality is created by the people in power, and the

A Response to the Far Right Concerning Gay Marriage   Mr. Far Right has claimed that neither the Constitution nor the Bill of Rights mentions the right of homosexual couples to marry. I think that it would be safe to say that a homosexual couple who wishes to marry is seeking their own definition of happiness. Did Mr. Far Right conveniently skip over the part about "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" that is the very spirit of both these documents?   "Mankind are greater

1984 a novel by George Orwell was written in 1949. It has received nothing but good reviews since the day it was published. Many relish over the unique writing style and interesting plot. But, one of the most significant features of this novel is how close it came to directly predicting the future. The government described in 1984 was almost an exaggerated version of the government in 1949. The government was described as controlling and unforgiving, but how does this related to our government now

Moral panics are defined as “a mass movement based on the false or exaggerated perception that some cultural behaviour or group of people is dangerously deviant” in the oxford dictionary of law. (Gooch & Williams, 2007). This proposes that moral panics are not necessarily something to panic about but are just over dramatized reactions towards deviance. A group or culture triggers a moral panic by acting against the norms, challenging the society they live in, behaving against traditions and bearing

Feminism, the Public and the Private Conceptualizations of the public and the private have always been central to the politics of second-wave feminism. The slogan, "the personal is political," implied that private life was often the site, if not the cause, of women's oppression. In 1974, some of the authors of Woman, Culture and Society (Lamphere and Rosaldo 1974), one of the founding texts of academic feminism, asserted that the universal cause of women's oppression lay in their confinement to

alternately the anti-French folly, the anti-Semitic folly, the anti-Polish folly, the Christian-romantic folly...”20 Nietzsche views these types of prejudice, notably similar to the list of groups targeted by Hitler, as a weakness, an example of ressentiment, as the Germans are too timid to assert themselves and therefore must blame their failures on others. Not only does he call anti-Semitism foolish, but he is also seen praising Jews and their superiority over Germans. In the same breath as his criticisms

1984: Our Past, Present, and Future 1984 a novel by George Orwell is a prediction of what the world will be like 35 years in the future from the time it was written (1949). It has received nothing but good reviews since the day it was published. Many relish over the unique writing style and interesting plot. But, one of the most significant features of this novel is how close it came to directly predicting the future. The government described in 1984 was almost an exaggerated version of the government

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) was one of the most influential philosophers and intellectual thinkers of the 19th century. He is considered one of the founders of modern existentialism, and his works have influenced various philosophers such as Martin Heidegger and Georges Bataille. His works often ran perpendicular to conventional beliefs of his time, and was received in numerous respects. Nietzsche really did not care who you were, or what it was, he had a criticism on almost everything

Schopenhauer Question 1: When Schopenhauer gets on the subject of “will” he elaborates well on many different aspects. When Schopenhauer talks about "will," he's talking about the concept of individual’s motivation. Their motivation that drives them to do something, something without even thought. He says that will drives and directs all human kind, and all animals. Even though this might sound optimistic, the concept of “will" is not a positive concept for Schopenhauer - he doesn't think it's

“Spinoza,” Deleuze tells us in his 1978 lectures, doesn 't make up a morality, for a very simple reason: he never asks what we must do, he always asks what we are capable of, what 's in our power, ethics is a problem of power, never a problem of duty. In this sense Spinoza is profoundly immoral. Regarding the moral problem, good and evil…he doesn 't even comprehend what this means. What he comprehends are good encounters, bad encounters, increases and diminutions of power. Thus he makes an ethics