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Nietzsche perspective on contract and punishment is more compelling to me than the other thinkers. I also think that Nietzsche and Marx are overlapping in some areas, and also Marx and Weber. Nietzsche perspective sounds compelling to me, because he is explaining the moral words we are using based on its origin. We use moral concepts the way how it has been used a long time ago, and we use those concepts based on its history “, the moral conceptual world of ‘debt’, ‘conscience’, ‘duty’, ‘sacred…

As Nietzsche begins the preface on the Genalogy of Morals it seems he saying philosophers are not men of knowledge. However, their job is find knowledge. He goes on to introduce the subject matter of the essay, “the origin of our moral prejudices.” Prior to the Genealogy of Morals, he had also written a book title Human. In this book a lot the same thoughts appear as in the Genealogy of Morals, and he is hoping over time these thought have become clearer. Nietzsche states he has pondered for a…

Nietzsche, a German philosopher, had ideas that were often regarded as radical due to his false association with the Nazi party. Nietzsche’s critique of Christianity, “The Anti-Christ” expresses ideas that are often ridiculed, yet these seemingly radical ideas are supported by western writings dating back to the sixth century B.C. through the early fourteenth century. The controlling point in the excerpt from Nietzsche’s work is that pity is useless because it is felt for Christian sins which…

FINAL ASSIGNMENT CALEB TONY-ENWIN PHIL 1000 100939996 APRIL 2, 2015 Question 1: Explain why Kant did not end up with Hume 's skepticism as far as the notion of causality goes. For this question you are required to explain what Hume 's skeptical solution to the 'problem of causality ' is and then explain in detail how Kant avoids this skeptical solution (in other words, you will have to talk about what role causality plays in Kant’s system and how Kant…

Although nineteenth century German philosopher, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche only lived for the first year of the twentieth century, the influence he exerted in it was great. Born in 1844 in Röcken, modern-day Germany, Nietzsche’s work did not achieve much significance during his own lifetime. However, after his death in 1900, his work rose to prominence and left a substantial impact on public thought within the twentieth century. Greatness, therefore for the purpose of this essay will be defined…

I am writing about Nietzsche’s ideas on what makes us human in which he explains the over man and the three transformations. I will also discuses Sarte’s belief what the purpose of human life is. Nietzsche is an existentialist that wrote a passage based on the human transformation in three stages. Sarte is also an existentialist that believes existentialism is humanism. Nietzsche describes his theory of existentialism through multiple metamorphoses. He stresses in his passage that these…

In “The Twofold Nietzschean Heritage” Girard invokes a powerful opponent of Christianity, Friedrich Nietzsche, in order to support his main argument that “no one has achieved success in making the concern for victims ‘outdated,’ and this is because it’s the only thing in our world that is not the creation of current fashion” (177). Girard is opposed to the Nietzschean disdain for mercy and antipathy towards the weak and victims, but Girard considers Nietzsche a genius since the German…

“We are unknown to ourselves, we knowers: and with good reason. We have never looked for ourselves – so how are we supposed to find ourselves?” begins Friedrich Nietzsche in the preface of his book, On the Genealogy of Morality (Nietzsche 3). In this statement, Nietzsche illustrates our lack of self-questioning and self-knowledge, criticizing man for treating the value of moral values “as given, as factual, beyond all questioning” (Nietzsche 8). He places the origin and development of our…

The categorical imperative, to Immanuel Kant, is an overarching principle of acting towards others the way you would like for them to treat everybody else; a slight furtherance of the ‘Golden Rule’(Where your actions are based upon the way you would like them to treat you). The categorical imperative creates a moral basis based upon one’s understanding of their own individuality coupled with an empathetic understanding of those around them, based upon their precepts that they’ve come to…

However, if – as I have discussed above – Nietzsche claims that all of reality is Will to Power, then to show what it means to be in general is to show what it means to be as Will to Power. Of course it could be pointed out that Parkes is talking about human beings and Nietzsche about the overhuman. However, I believe that can be said for the latter is valid for the former. As mentioned above, in EH Nietzsche claims that because of his great health Zarathustra ‘is reality itself’ insofar as he…