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28 Cards in this Set
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Who did Nietzche say killed God?
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We did
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What are some books Nietzche wrote?
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Human, All Too Human.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Beyond Good and Evil. On the Genealogy of Morals. Twilight of the Idols. The Anti-Christ. The Gay Science. |
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Nietzche, are well all the same?
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Everyone is rational?
Everyone seeks what is in their best interest? Everyone is economically determined? Everyone is driven by norms and wants order? Everyone seeks a brute? |
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Nietzche, ideas on human nature.
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Maybe, what is really amazing is that we think there is a human nature.
Maybe, what is really crazy is that we think other people are motivated, think and will act the same way as us under the same conditions. Maybe, we can't tell one story that will explain everything. |
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Nietzche, idea on the universals.
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Maybe there is NO human nature.
Maybe there is NO universal history. Maybe there is NO utopia. Maybe life is the chaotic mass we see around us. |
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Nietzche, what is more empirical?
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What is more empirical, to push under the chaos we see around us an order that controls it all, or to LOOK and SEE that life is much more than any one simplification.
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Nietzche, what is really amazing.
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What is really amazing is that we convince ourselves that the constructions we make are things we find in the world- EX nation
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Nieztche's views on Western tradition.
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For Nieztche, the entire western tradition since Socrates has been driven by hatred of becoming. If something changed it was deemed transitory and untrue.
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What did Socrates teach us to do?
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Socrates taught us to reason. Reasoning aims at finding what is unchanging behind shifting, misleading appearances.
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According to Nieztche, reasoning is nothing less than a process of...
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Mummification.
He thinks western thought has been consistently sought to stop the movement, to form concepts that are universal across appearances. |
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Nietzche- quote on mummification
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"When these honorable idolators of concepts worship something they kill it and stuff it; they threaten the life of everything they worship.
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What did Nietzche say was one of the stupidest interpretations of the world?
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A "scientific" interpretation of the world.
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Nieztche: an essentially mechanical world would be...
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an essentially meaningless world
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Nieztche- an interpretation that permits counting, calculating, weighing, seeing, touching, and nothing more...
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that is a crudity and naieve, assuming that it is not a mental illness.
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Nieztche mocks those in the world who think...
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the real world is signs, logic, numbers and abstract symbols, and not the world we experience with out bodies.
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Nieztche's view on God. (Aristotle's God)
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The abstract, distant, empty God of Aristotle- a product of the logic and process of reason- shows the absurdity of this kind of rationality.
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Nieztche- the true world
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Once being and reason have become the standards for what constitutes knowledge, the next step is to see this world, a place of becoming, as an illusion that somehow hides or covers what is real. (Plato's allegory of the cave)
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Nieztche- reason is what aids...
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Reason is what aids you in the process of throwing off the world of becoming and seeing the world of being.
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Nieztche- History of error, 5 parts
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1) The true world is accessible to the philosophers and sage through reason. This is Plato's model.
2) The true world is out of reach for now, but promised to those who do what is required. This is Christianity. 3) The true world is something we cannot access, but the still impels us. This is Kant's model of the true world. 4) The true world because it is not considered unattainable begins to lose it's power. 5) The idea of the true world dies. Nieztche points out the idea of the apparent world is false and dies. |
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Nieztche- What is Nihillism?
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A nihilist is a man who judges of the world as it is that it ought not to be, and of the world as it ought to be that it does not exist.
Nihilism is the pervasive sentiment that the here and now of the present is empty of meaning and power while desirable and fulfilling worlds simply do not exist. A nihilist is sick of this world and has lost hope that there is another one. |
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Nietzsche- What needs to be done?
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First, the system needs to be torn down. It isn’t working. Nietzsche leads by example here, offering aphorism after destructive aphorism that take aim at Socrates, Christ, Kant, the empiricists, the rationalists, Apollo—in short the entire Socratic tradition.
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Nietzsche- Who are the destroyers?
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The destroyers are those who agree with Nietzsche that God is dead- that the system of modernity is bankrupt- and who see their task as being a demolishing system that continues to grow and trap people in its iron cage.
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Nietzsche- be an ubermensch?
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Ubermensch positive:
-Be a free spirit -Enjoy life -Take it serious Ubermensch negative: -Will to power -Not democratic -Beyond good and evil |
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Nietzsche- What is the second, often overlooked task of nihilism?
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The founding of the new world, the reestablishment of instincts.
New figure like Christ, Socrates, Buddha, or Confucius. Nietzsche as John the Baptists. Nietzsche as fisherman. |
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Liquid Modernity or
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Brave New World
Postmodernity |
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In Foucault’s later work, he began to feel that
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The disciplinary society was changing into an even more insidious form of biopower.
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What is biopower?
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A form of power that regulates social life from its interior, following it, interpreting it, absorbing it, and rearticulating it.
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Disciplinary Society
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As one in which power is exercised as a transcendent power. The authority comes from the outside as a kind of imposition. This is the experience of submitting to a norm.
Institutions that tend to shape the individual : school, family, hospital, factory, etc. |
