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he had the same words of contempt. Under an absolute monarchy, he believed, the military or law-enforcing caste was unduly exalte...

meaning; however, it has a totally different meaning if one steals from a prosperous bakery in order to keep ones family from star...

to understand the last mans comprehension of these notions, and why the last man is not able to create beyond himself, one has to ...

as falsely inferred, would have good reason in the end to become distrustful of all thinking" (Nietzsche 821). Those who wished a...

knowledge is not as important as faith. That is a significant difference between the two. At the same time, neither admits that hu...

and philosophy have looked at such issues. Some contemporary philosophers claim that all things are really comprised of energy and...

for Life," commenting that ...we must seriously despise instruction without vitality, knowledge which enervates activity, and his...

aside and did not dig any deeper--there is also something suspicious in it." " (Nietzsche 257). It is here that the philosopher im...

the true nature of man and the meaning of individuality. In looking at Nietzsches works, one can see that he sees individuality a...

In the context of a greater philosophy perhaps, a philosopher says what he thinks. Yet, he is unwittingly part of a grand plan. Wh...

discover) the truth or falsity of propositions about past and present events, propositions about the future seem problematic. If a...

identifies Schopenhauers most distinctive contribution to philosophy as his "insistence that Will is more basic than thought to bo...

something in Platos morality which does not really belong to Plato but is only to be met with in his philosophy, one might say in ...

Zarathustra begins as follows: "When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into th...

reference regarding a camel fitting through the eye of the needle. Certainly, Nietzsche did not mean to suggest anything beyond th...

all that man can know, as well for the conduct of his life as for the preservation of his health and the discovery of all the arts...

in his own personal progress at the cost of everything else. He was wholly supportive of the scientific community during the Enli...

lead to irrational ends (Lear, 1995). For Freud who used psychoanalysis to try and account for human irrationality it was determi...

scholarly and historical thought on this subject offers guidance on these issues. Christianity "was born of Judaism: it was the ...

How Berlin was set up between the wars is addressed in the context of Otto Friedrich's compelling writing. Various aspects are dis...

In seven pages this paper discusses such global events as sect to established religion transition, Medieval Christianity and Europ...

of the supposed "truth" of some Christian believers to cut through the sin of the real world for the sake of the individual soul o...

to enlightenment. The aim of the focus is to achieve an ultimate and final freedom from existence (Religious Tolerance [1], 2007)....

society, actually many shifts, that led to the current attitudes held by Christians today. For example, there was a time when peop...

bus she and Julian are taking downtown to the Y, his mother plays with the child (OConnor). She doesnt see that the childs mother ...

human comparable with Kants ideas? For Nietzsche, the noble human being strives to be alone, to stand up for himself, to take on r...

Nietzsche would find some violence acceptable. Nietzsche would likely agree with the "just war" concept. At the same time, when it...

fulfillment. John Cassian (1997) wrote extensively about this topic. For Cassian, the goals of asceticism seem to be the preparati...

God, and that it is not something that is external or intrinsic to man. In other words, morality does not come from a force outsid...

In five pages this paper applies Nietzsche's Existentialism to an analysis of exile in The Awakening by Kate Chopin and A Streetca...