Friedrich Nietzsche

Although Immanuel Kant and Nietzsche differed on some philosophical ideologies, yet the influence imposed on our current culture is a result of their innovative way of understanding the world around us. Today 's society follows similar ideologies, Nietzsche would oppose like, conformity, materialism, and knowledge. By the same token, the advancement of greed, envy, and technology would support Nietzsche 's philosophy. Our culture has placed more emphasis on a logical and factual method of…

It is well known that Deleuze had a negative opinion about comparative philosophy. In his eyes, comparative philosophy represented a certain type of ressentiment and a perverse satisfaction in exposing the contradictions of the other thinker; his method was monographic. 1 Adorno, on the other hand, was opposed to a notion of a Lebensphilosophie in general, holding that any attempt to ground philosophy on a notion of lived experience was nothing but blind self-assertion.2 Undermining the spirit…

transform from pre-civilized, e.g., humans in their primal state with little regard for social-obligations; to civilized, e.g., those who comply and conform to the laws of a civilized society, and how this transformation relates to punishment. Nietzsche hypothesizes, that although history shows a transformation from pre-civilized into “the kind of human being that civilization produces” (BCIT, 2000), that punishments,…

Bergson: Time, Memory and Modernism Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay Henri Bergson (1859 – 1941) was a French philosopher whose philosophy had a marked influence on later 19th century poetry and also on 20th century modernist thought. In my presentation, I will outline in brief Bergson’s key philosophical thoughts and how they influenced modernist literature. Bergson maintained that in animals, evolution caused a division between the instinct and the intellect. Although the two are not exclusive of…

1.2 Yalom’s model of existential psychotherapy Yalom believed life has arisen from random events, we are finite and we are responsible for our own destiny (Yalom, 2008), and he identified “four ultimate concerns” as the key to all human existence; death, freedom, isolation and meaningless, and stated, “The individual’s confrontation with these facts of life constitutes the content of the existential dynamic conflict” (Yalom, 1980 p. 8). Death is the central part of Yalom’s philosophy, as we are…

Nietzsche idea of "the overman" is one of the most significant concept in his thinking. In his Will to Power excerpts, he doesn’t mention the term ”the overman” as much in the excerpt, he does give various characteristic to the term. (i.e page 276, columns 997­999) making it more than obvious vision on how a man should be more than just human ­all­ too­ human, regardless if he was one or not. All these ideas had been pondered on and developed though all his works. This, more or less,…

beautifully in the Birth Tragedy. The longstanding debate between the subjectivity and the objectivity of art is addressed to critically by Nietzsche in the book. His basic idea that he propagates in Birth of Tragedy includes the reality with the forms and the same without the forms, and the comparison therein. Known as the Apollonian and the Dionysian,…

concepts in our real world today. Nietzsche, Plato and Aristotle, are three well noted philosophers who all believed that a great extent of our knowledge and everything that we know today and believe to be true is in someway metaphors and illusions. They all understood the strong bond that knowledge and metaphors had. However, they each viewed metaphors from different standpoints, expressing dissimilar opinions of it. This paper will first compare and contrast what Nietzsche, Plato and Aristotle…

form—exploitation.” -Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil The nihilism analysis has been prevalent position over the past few years. Its anticipated purpose is to demand questions about the norms made in a philosophical debate. These contain the notion that one must actually suggest and preserve an idea in order to contextualize one’s idea. Tacitly, this philosophy, nihilism, seems new to most people and to philosophy as a whole. Especially from a Western standpoint. But Nietzsche conducts…

morality. In this paper, I argue that Nietzsche does not think Marx an example of the slave revolt in morality as Nietzsche’s view of the slave class is different to Marx’s view of the proletarians as well as their differing suggestions in terms of imaginary revenge and physical revolution. To begin with, Nietzsche explains in the first essay that master morality is one associated with the noble who are “the mighty, the high-placed and the high-minded” (Nietzsche, 11). In contrast, the slave…