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Based on one of Friedrich Nietzsche's most distinguished philosophy books ever written during the 18th century, he develops a new philosophical 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 dogmatism with the true free spirits. Through all of this, Conard argued that Bart Simpson was not Nietzsche's ideal while, on the contrary, Felder argues…

Nietzsche and “God is Dead” I. Introduction “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.” (The Gay Science 120) When first being introduced to Nietzsche, a person may infer that his idea, the “death of God”, is literal. The phrase does not mean there was an actual God who existed at one point and then died in a literal sense. When Nietzsche said this, he was implying that God died in modern society, the values of religion lost their dominance, and religion no longer fulfills the role…

Friedrich Nietzsche has many influential theories, and different views, thoughts, or perspectives on his writings. He was one of the great thinkers of the nineteenth century and still continues to be the object of many debates with his not-so-mainstream views of reason, power and governance. Nietzsche, greatly influenced views of various realms of society, including anything from religion to politics. His background (where he came from, how he influenced the world and in turn how the world…

Nietzsche is one of Foucault’s more repetitive and positive reference points in some of his writings. In a close look at both Foucault and Nietzsche, one would find a profound use of criticizing power of the will thesis and using other historical thinkers such as Freudian and Marxist beliefs and ideas. Both philosophers, Foucault and Nietzche had a longing to articulate and speak out about concepts and theories like rhizome and other conventionally perceived concepts and ideas that pertain to…

Philip K Dick and Stanislaw Lem were among many postmodernist science fiction writers to be influenced by Nietzsche theory of eternal recurrence. Nietzsche’s explains the theory of eternal recurrence in “The Gay Science” as; “ This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable amount of times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will…

“God is dead,” claimed Friedrich Nietzsche. Such bold statements defined Nietzsche’s nonconformity and his critical attitude towards the public and Christianity in the late 1800’s. A nonconformist is one who does not comply with society's standards and opinions as a whole. Nietzsche fit this role of nonconformity perfectly, he disagreed with common opinions, criticized mainstream religion, and argued with modern philosophy. Friedrich Nietzsche was born in 1844 in Röcken, Germany. Nietzsche had…

My Thoughts: To me, it seems like Nietzsche is saying here that the fact that most of us would not be content to relive our lives exactly as they are, over and over, should clue us in that we need to change our behavior. Maybe the very consideration of whether or not we’d be content to experience things exactly the same way again could help us to act in ways that make us more “benevolent toward life.” My Thoughts: This passage confused me a little bit. I can understand the suffering by those…

Born on April 12, 1777, Henry Clay was a devoted nationalist.. He was very influential in the United States sectional conflict, economic prosperity, and development of its infrastructure. When Clay was 4 years old, his father died and he was considered an orphan, even though his mother did not die until 1829. Clay only had three years of formal education, yet the Virginian still became a lawyer by self educating himself. At the age of 20 years, Clay migrated to Kentucky to begin his career as…

Throughout Nietzsche’s On The Genealogy of Morality, he takes a speculative trip throughout time to determine the drastic change in the morals of society. In his analysis he address the ascetic ideals as the bedrock that lead to the ultimate change of society to slave morality from master morality. The ascetic ideals also set up a vicious cycle to spread the “sickness” throughout the population. Nietzsche notes that a key problem of the ascetic ideals is it’s infectious nature. The best…

Reason is not necessarily the means to the better life, or towards procuring ‘the good,’ from the view of these latter thinkers. It seems that Nietzsche would problematize the allegory of the den, in this respect, to no end. From a Nietzschean perspective, the relativity of our values, and the ways they merely reflect the power dynamics and social and political undercurrents of our age, begs the question of their effect on our reason (Nietzsche, 1989, p.46-47). The supposed ‘good’ or ‘moral…