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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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 the evolution of narrative are examined in a consideration of Scarlet and Black, Tristram Shandy, Madame Bovary, He...

In about fifteen pages Nietzsche's philosophies are analyzed in this collection of essays that discuss such concepts as nihilism, ...

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

In six pages this paper examines how society's outlook is reflected in individual perceptions in an analysis of Nietzsche's On the...

originally? Even if it is passed on to future generations, or victims, it has to come form somewhere. While some say it is origina...

(Nietzsche, 1974). It does seem to be true that when someone supports old institutions and mainstays they are applauded by the lar...

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

This essay discusses Nietzsche's perspective on good and evil within the context provided by Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. Ten pages i...

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...

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