Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth has no value in itself unless it can achieve and immediate goal. Curtis (2000) states” Postmodern thought also draws deeply from the work of Friedrich Nietzsche who, like Kant, questioned man’s ability to perceive truth in a highly complex and chaotic world… all attempts to determine meaning are doomed to failure and truth is radically relative” (p.59). Views of truth like this, is an attempt to make…

Philosophy and Literature Final Exam Dr. Charles Nussbaum Submitted By: Srijana Timalsina 1. What is reflective equilibrium? Summarize briefly but accurately the thought experiments posed (respectively) by Thomson and Dennett in their articles. Explain how the experiments are designed to affect our intuitions about specific cases and state the principles that you believe must be brought into…

In the period from 1860-1900, Darwin developed his theory of natural selection. Natural selection was the idea that a dominant species would overcome all the rest. This sparked many ideas and philosophies, such as a weakening in the church, the rise of Social Darwinism, and a surge of new ideas and thought. The church had always been the lead in the sciences of the day, but when scientists started to challenge the church, their strength began to falter. Darwin’s theory challenged the concept of…

Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, once said, “Man is the cruelest animal.” This statement holds true in Lord of the Flies, a novel by William Golding. Man is the cruelest animal when there is no law and order to civilize them. In this allegory, a group of English schoolboys are stranded on an tropical island while fleeing Britain. Ralph, the protagonist, meets Piggy, the intellect of the group, and Jack, the tyrannical leader of the hunters. Struggling to survive on the island, they…

The notion that God is dead has been disputed between proponents and opponents for centuries. One stalwart advocate of the belief that God is dead is Friedrich Nietzsche. Selections of Nietzsche’s Gay Science state, “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for…

the literary fictional works of Sartre’s, such as Nausea and No Exit. Among the major philosophers identified as existentialists were Karl Jaspers, Martin Heidegger, and Martin Buber, the nineteenth century philosophers, Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche, came to be seen as precursors of the movement. Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre, a French philosopher, author, and playwright, coined the term: Existence…

In the beginning of my freshman year in high school, I used to read a lot of books. I used to read from romantic novels to long articles about conspiracies that had to do with Area 51 and extraterrestrial life. I loved the idea that I could gain so much knowledge from articles and books if I took some of my time to read it. I would read books within a week because that is how captivating and enjoyable the books were to me. However, by the end of my senior year, I had realized that I had spent…

are true. The truth is very inconsistent especially for those who lie. The truth can easily be true just as easily as it can be false. The events we’ve experienced can influence how we perceive certain things to be true or not. According to Friedrich Nietzsche people who have take fault for something bad happening tend to torture themselves. For example, if someone were to be hit by drunk driver after that experience their perception of people who drink may only be as though they are bad people.…

Michael Collett's thoughtful article "God and the problem of sincere disbelief" must have touched a nerve. Within an hour of it being published on Wednesday, I received a flurry of emails from believing Christians asking me what I thought. Collett and I share in common our religious upbringing. He tells the bitter-sweet tale of his coming to non-belief without rancour. He says that he made an extensive investigation of the evidence and decided that it was not for him. First, he says: "Being a…

Analyzing Articles “The more they use the Web, the more they have to fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing” (Carr, 511). In “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains” Nicholas Carr talks about how the Internet has changed our way of thinking and comprehending information. He argues that while the Internet is nice to have as a reference it is taking a toll on our brains. Carr effectively convinces the reader that the Internet is affecting the human brain and…