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Criticism on the Democracy Objections of Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Truth According to David Hume, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Aristotle

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

Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud on Civilizations' Rational and Irrational Thought

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

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche and Symposium by Plato

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 ...

Good Life According to Friedrich Nietzsche

or good enough. This individual does not say they have gone out of their way for another, nor have they claimed that they have sto...

Transcendence, Religion, and the Superman Theory of Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Good and Bad, Good and Evil According to Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Reasons for Punishment According to Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Friedrich Nietzsche and Rene Descartes on Truth

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

Analyzing On the Use and Abuse of History for Life by Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Friedrich Nietzsche and Karl Marx on Individuality

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

Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche and the 'Last Man' Importance

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

'Last Man' and Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Morality and Knowledge According to Friedrich Nietzsche, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Rene Descartes

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...

Liberal Democratic and Radical Political Schools of Thought Compared

of his better known works "The Social Contract", he discusses issues involved in radical or republican thought regarding the human...

Venice and Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper considers the similarities between Irvin Yalom's When Nietzsche Wept and Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. ...

Happiness and the Existentialism of Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper examines what conditions the German philosopher established pertaining to the human need for happiness as...

Criticisms by Plato and Friedrich Nietzsche on 'Good'

"herd." The noble man, according to Nietzsche, follows the morality of one who is a master of others. As master, he is who determ...

T.S. Eliot, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and Modernism

In 7 pages the evolution of modernism is chronicled in an analysis of 'On the Genealogy of Morals' by Nietzsche; 'Civilization and...

Western Civilization's Decline According to Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche

In 4 pages this paper considers how Nietzsche and Dostoevsky similarly believed Western Civilization was declining but viewed diff...

Philosophy's Role and Defense of Socrates in Apology by Plato

In two pages this paper examines philosophy's role and human activity purpose as well as Socrates' defense as represented in Apolo...

2 Passages by Friedrich Nietzsche and Karl Marx Analyzed

In a report consisting of five pages Marx's 'The German Ideology' is examined in great detail while only a passage from 'Genealogy...

How Friedrich Nietzsche Viewed Plato and Socrates

upon expressing an objective truth. For example, approving of an action and stating that the action is right can be construed as ...

Literary Works of Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Good and Evil According to Philosophers William James, Friedrich Nietzsche, St. Augustine of Hippo, and Aristotle

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

Psychology and Friedrich Nietzsche

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

'Eternal Return' of Friedrich Nietzsche and Meaning

In thirteen pages this paper considers the Eternal Return of Nietzsche in a consideration of theoretical meaning. Seven sources a...

Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

The revolutionary philosophy of Rene Descartes as it is presented within Meditations on First Philosophy is explained in an essay ...

Comparative Philosophical Analysis of David Hume and George Berkeley

In five pages this report compares Hume and Berkeley in terms of their philosophies' differences and similarities particularly as ...