Caspar David Friedrich

It can be easily understood that Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx wanted to challenge the status quo within their societies. They grew to a level of dissatisfaction from the production of their community and wanted to emphasize the problems and revelations to birth from this. Karl Marx was born in 1818, in Trier, Germany. From a young age, Marx was curious about the conservative government that he lived under. This curiosity turned to frustration, then anger and he sought to research and reveal the…

Existentialism “A philosophical theory or approach that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will.” –Internet meaning Existentialism is the idea that a man lives due to his free will and individuality. That every human define their own meaning in life. It also tackles what is human existence and that human defines their own meaning of life. This idea believes that there is no God, or any higher…

Man’s final and complete happiness consists of actualizing his potential. The potential consists in the contemplation of the divine essence. Thus, happiness and the divine essence are in turn identical and inseparable. Although, contemplating the divine essence is withheld from us until we are in the world to come. As long as man desires and seeks something, he remains unhappy. This is because the intellect seeks the essence of a thing. For example, knowing an effect, like a solar eclipse, the…

So we see that from the very beginning Nietzsche frames the Genealogy of Morals in the light of his worries concerning the self-awareness of those supposed to be the “learned ones”. In this, genealogy’s positive aspect emerges, as we can appreciate how Nietzsche’s work is driven by the desire of presenting these men of knowledge with their lack of self-awareness, as well as with the tool to overcome it. In this respect, my understanding is that the “beehives of our knowledge” are an image and…

The Challenge of Atheism Nietzsche presents that Christians base their beliefs on faith, without reason, creating a lifestyle in which we are destined to exist passively. The message he sends is that we have a choice. That is, to become dependent on God in a society that has essentially killed him, or to become our own God. Faith is a pillar of Christianity, but you can't go as far as Nietzsche and say that the Christian moral values are invalid because there is no reason behind it. When he…

Based on one of Friedrich Nietzsche's most distinguished philosophy book ever written during the 18th century, he develops a new philosopher ideal. In the book "Beyond Good and Evil," Nietzsche inquires a philosophy of the future for "free spirits". Nietzsche describes the distinct species of a philosopher, the "free spirits" and contrasts the false free spirits with the true free spirits. Nietzsche mentions the French Revolution, Voltaire, Stendhal, and "modern ideas". Nietzsche's claim argues…

Hesse Analysis Paper Kera Kojima UCOR 1410: Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud Dr. Kangas November 22, 2014 Since the beginning of the novel we see evidence of Haller’s suicidal tendencies, it is not caused by depression, but by his obsessive animosity of the bourgeois. He states, "For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of…

In writing the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels aimed to provide hope and opportunity to the working class (proletariat) while simultaneously warning the capitalist beneficiaries (bourgeoise) of their oncoming destruction. The two argued that capitalism, which, by nature, involved the exploitation of the working class, was unjust. However, they also noted how capitalism was driving towards its own destruction, because it heavily relies on the working class and provides them…

Given the spiritual dilemma first highlighted in Europe as thinkers gradually discovered that their newfound embrace of faith in reason could not be easily reconciled with faith in organized religion, Friedrich Nietzsche’s post-Enlightenment philosophy should not have come as much of a surprise to any of his contemporaries. In his Parable of the Madman, he frankly portends the immutable result of a communal belief in a Christian God that has been permeated by rationalism and science: “God is…

Both Freud and Nietzsche not only analyse the state of guilt today, but also start by examining the origins of guilt. When examining the origins of guilt, their accounts are very similar, and revolve around key ideas such as pleasure, power, and aggression. It is not until the two give their thoughts on the present-day nature of guilt and it’s long-term prospects, that their thoughts on Guilt start to take two different and unique stances. Nietzsche looks further back than the current mindset,…