Thesis: While Nietzsche and Freud each speak on different topics about man-kind in the articles, both of them speak of how science has now become a key focal point in Europe at the end of the 19th Century.
The state of modern Europe at the end of the 19th century as described by both Nietzsche and Freud was on that had become engulfed with science. Science was continuously evolving since the Scientific Revolution, but now it was being used to interpret morality and question human intellect, as well as intention. In Nietzsche's God is Dead, Nietzsche does not talk about how God has actually died, but rather that science and rationale of the time has "killed" God. At this transition into modern Europe it is no longer the "age of tragedy, morality, …show more content…
Freud’s theories proposed that the study of our dreams implied real intentions in the world. The ability to interpret dreams and diagnose a human being and their intentions was a product of modern Europe. Before this time people would use their dreams to fuel their anxiety rather than learn from it. He uses the Roman Emperor as an example who once killed a man, because the man had dreams of killing the Emperor. While Freud disagrees with the execution it sheds light on the idea that in the past dreams were taking at face value and there was no sense of diagnosis or understanding to them at all. To Freud, it was the age of science and it needed to be used to go further in interpreting all aspects of life. The ability to interpret a dream, was the ability to judge a man’s character. It was the ability to learn through science and question every piece of information that was available to them and go further than those in the past. Like Nietzsche, Freud shared the same emphasis on science during modern Europe at the end of the 19th century. It was a time period that was no longer reliant on submissive and lazy thinking, it was one that had become open to millions of unanswered questions, one where science was now the focal
The state of modern Europe at the end of the 19th century as described by both Nietzsche and Freud was on that had become engulfed with science. Science was continuously evolving since the Scientific Revolution, but now it was being used to interpret morality and question human intellect, as well as intention. In Nietzsche's God is Dead, Nietzsche does not talk about how God has actually died, but rather that science and rationale of the time has "killed" God. At this transition into modern Europe it is no longer the "age of tragedy, morality, …show more content…
Freud’s theories proposed that the study of our dreams implied real intentions in the world. The ability to interpret dreams and diagnose a human being and their intentions was a product of modern Europe. Before this time people would use their dreams to fuel their anxiety rather than learn from it. He uses the Roman Emperor as an example who once killed a man, because the man had dreams of killing the Emperor. While Freud disagrees with the execution it sheds light on the idea that in the past dreams were taking at face value and there was no sense of diagnosis or understanding to them at all. To Freud, it was the age of science and it needed to be used to go further in interpreting all aspects of life. The ability to interpret a dream, was the ability to judge a man’s character. It was the ability to learn through science and question every piece of information that was available to them and go further than those in the past. Like Nietzsche, Freud shared the same emphasis on science during modern Europe at the end of the 19th century. It was a time period that was no longer reliant on submissive and lazy thinking, it was one that had become open to millions of unanswered questions, one where science was now the focal