Similarities Between Hegel's 'Fear And Trembling'

Section A. #1: Marx refers to human nature as "Gattungswesen", or "species-being", which means that humans are capable of making or shaping their own nature, at least to some extent. Essentially, because marx doesn't refer to "human nature" as such, he uses the term "species-being". This is mainly due to Marx's theory that the fundamental "nature" of human-beings is there drive to create and express themselves in and through nature. This is why alienation is a major theme and problem in Marx's philosophy. Alienation, or estrangement, of people from aspects of their human nature, Gattungswesen, is a consequence of living in a society or community that is stratified into social classes, particularly the bourgeois and the proletariate. This …show more content…
Each "problema" begins by following Hegel in defining the ethical as universal, and drawing premises for that claim. Johannes then shows how Abraham directly violates Hegel's philosophy and understanding of Abraham. Johannes eventually concludes that either Hegel is wrong or Abraham is irredeemably lost. The ethical versus the religious is the major distinction that runs throughout "Fear and Trembling". The ethical is associated with the universal, the tragic hero, with the state, infinite resignation, the Absolute Mind, with absolute understanding and with Hegel. Essentially, the ethical is the idea that the individuals highest aim is to release our individuality and find expression in the universal, the state, never acting on our own behalf but always on behalf of the greater good. On the other side of the spectrum, the religious is associated with the lone individual, with Kierkegaard's knight of faith, with the leap of faith and paradox, with the absurd and the anxiety that comes with it, as well as with the double movement. Essentially, it is the idea that the individual as an individual can enter into a private/personal relationship with God that transcends the ethical and suspends …show more content…
#1: In Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morality", Nietzsche explicates what he means when he writes, "To be incapable of taking one's enemies, one's accidents, even one's misdeeds seriously for very long - that is the sign of strong, full natures…", by developing two distinct sets of moral value systems. The Master-Slave morality is the central theme in his work on moral genealogy. For Nietzsche, a particular morality is inseparable from the particular culture that creates it, meaning that things like language, codes, practices, stories/narratives, and social institutions are informed and shaped by the struggle between these two types of moral