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Both Antoine Nicolas de Condorcet and Karl Marx develop theories that include reducing or abolishing inequality. In fact, the two do share many similarities in regards to their beliefs in equality. With so many similarities, the two theories will be defined by their differences in comparison to one another. The main difference between Condorcet and Marx is that they do not share the same definition for equality nor the same intentions. Marxism strives for pure equality, in that everyone shares…

David Miranda Mr. Lara Honors Economics Period 2 19 February, 2016 Communism and Socialism The origin of Communism can be found in 1844, when Karl Marx, a man from Germany who came from Jewish heritage, was introduced to Friedrich Engels. The two believed that capitalism was an evil economic philosophy in which the working-class were exploited by their class-heads (upper-class). In 1848, the two wrote and published a book entitled "The Communist Manifesto", in which they expressed such hatred…

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…

Adam Smith states that, “No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.” Smith is meaning that not every society is fair; there will be people who are “flourishing and happy” and some of the people will be “poor and miserable.” It is very difficult to have a society in which every person is happy. There is a large gap between the rich and the poor in America. The rich makes up one percent of America’s population. That one…

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…

Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and John Stuart Mill are three authors who tackle the topic of freedom in unique ways, but their messages are fundamentally the same and further the ideas that we encountered in the esoteric texts as well as in The Matrix, most prominent of which is the claim that our freedom is simply an illusion. These texts differ from the esoteric texts in that they do not try to get us to believe in religious ideology, however they still suggest ways for us to better our lives.…

An Inspector Calls is a play written by Dramatist J.B Priestley in 1945. Priestley was a left-wing socialist and this was one of the factors which influenced him to write this play. Even though the play was written in 1945, it was actually set in 1912, right before the start of the First World War. It is set in the spring of 1912 at the Brumley home of the Birlings, a prosperous industrial family in the North Midlands, getting involved in the death of a woman named Eva Smith. The Inspector uses…

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…