Friedrich List

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” Friedrich Nietzsche encapsulates the paradox of humankind — a desperate desire to save the world coupled with a dangerous susceptibility to becoming the very monster to be slain. Man’s ability to rationalize allows him to rebuff the guilt over his most treacherous decisions, but the guilt remains, pilfering away at his faith in…

since its introduction to the general public this very pamphlet has perplexed, intrigued and insulted millions after having been acquainted with the very ideas of note in this title. Causing a major disruption in the Twentieth century, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels provided the roots for the February and October Revolutions in Russia, the War of Liberation in China, as well as the Cold War. Their words have influenced the world in a way that most politicians and evil villains only dream of…

I n t h i s p a s s a g e f r o m T h e T e m p e s t , P r o s p e r o e m i t s a t i r a d e , d i r e c t e d a t C a l i b a n , i n w h i c h h e justifies Caliban’s enslavement through perceived inherent moral inequality. Prospero addresses Caliban as an “abhorrèd slave ... capable of all ill,” as a “savage” that “wouldst gabble like a thing most brutish,” and as one of “vile race” (1.2.351­353, 355, 356­357, 358). Prospero’s first line conveys emotions of anger and disgust, undoubtedly…

Merna Sitto PHIL 2100 2/3/2017 Matzke- HW 1 Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche was a brilliant philosopher and influencer on modern thinking and published numerous works in philosophy. One of his books that I’ve come across in the past is Beyond Good and Evil. Nietzsche argues that most conscious thinking tends to be informed strictly by instinct. To understand what Nietzsche means, we need to understand his conception of the will to power. Nietzsche aims at freeing…

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…

Karl Marx was a German philosopher born on may the fifth of the year eighteen-eighteen. He was born to Heinrich Marx and Henrietta Pressburg at 664 Bruckergasse in Trier. Trier was a town that was a part of the kingdom of Prussia’s province of the lower Rhine. Karl’s father was the first in line to receive a secular education. He became a lawyer and later he lived a relatively wealthy and middle class life. Marx’s family owned a number of vineyards, which happened to be mosselle vineyards at…

The Communist Manifesto was published by Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels in 1848, a year of violent revolts throughout Europe. He writes during a time of nationalist uprising. Karl Marx states the main driver of history is class struggle. These struggles start from early ages, “From the serfs of the Middle Ages sprang the chartered burghers of the earliest towns. From these burgesses the first elements of the bourgeoisie were developed” (Manifesto part 1). Human history is history because of…

Regarding Nietzsche’s quote, what he means when stating “This is my; where is yours” is that there isn’t just one-way of doing things. The word simple or the concept of simplicity means completely different things to each individual. Each individual has a specific way they want to live their life. Trying to live someone else’s life will never keep you content. What make one person happy won’t automatically make you happy. Thus, Nietzsche’s quote explains that his way is how he wants to live…

In studying religions and the human experience of religion, it is clear that there are both similarities and differences in the enumeration of practices and beliefs around the world and in various cultures and by various scholars. Though it is expressed in a multitude of ways, Nietzsche argues that there is a thread connecting the human religious experience, which can be called the ascetic ideals. “Nietzsche introduces this essay by asking, “what is the meaning of ascetic ideals?” He answers…

The Communist Manifesto is the first document with systematic and complete presentation of all components of the great teachings of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. It formulates the basic provisions of the materialist understanding of history, the objective laws of development of society, regularities of transition from one mode of production to another. It also describes the history of all existing class societies as the history of class struggles. Both the role and evolution of the…