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In eight pages Nietzsche's works are examined with the primary focus being Thus Spake Zarathustra. Five sources are cited in the ...

defines the theoretical support for the argument of psychologys central importance in understanding mankind. As an extension of t...

In six pages this paper discusses the modern and classical concepts of good and evil as conceptualized by these philosophers. Fiv...

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

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...

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 ...

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

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

benevolent and living God who is infinite in a myriad of ways. Because God is deemed to be dead, Nietzsche sees it necessary fo...

the sense of with aristocratic soul" (Nietzsche, 2002). This development occurred simultaneously with its polar opposite, by whic...

core of humanitys lack of individualism and blind willingness to be part of what he referred to as "the herd." In Nietzsches opini...

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...

states that the anthropomorphites commit a grave error because Jesus Himself said that God is a spirit and mans body cannot possib...

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

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

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...

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

Introduction The work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez is referred to as magical realism for there are elements within his stories that ...

In three pages this paper discusses how the 'corrupted' man theories were viewed by John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx a...

and will stop at nothing to satisfy his ambition, even if it means killing his brother: "A murtherer and a villain! / A slave that...

the Columbia River, the endangered Caspian terns feed off of endangered salmon smolts. In this case, though, biologists were able...

is something that is not synonymous with love. At the same time, the sexual system is more than just something that involves a man...

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

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