Friedrich Nietzsche

after all? Religious relativism is a topic central to postmodernism and university students and the bottom line question is “is Christianity Rational?” (Sire, as cited in Carson, 2000, p. 94). “God is dead” the writings of a German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche have influenced the postmodern mindset. How can apologist evangelists justify Christian belief in the existence of God and the deity and resurrection of Jesus Christ? To make connections with postmodern students without compromising the…

Everyone has their strengths and everyone has their weaknesses. In the sport of soccer for example, everyone on the team can spend the same amount of time practicing the same skill or move but this does not mean each player does not complete the move as successfully as the other. Similarly, this is also the case when it comes to authors and their use of rhetorical strategies, diction, and the Aristotelian appeals. Some authors use these writing strategies more successfully than others. In the…

Leadership scholars are often at difference about the true definition of leadership. Post World War II, the study of leadership has grown significantly, yet in all of the scholarly texts on the subject, no two definitions are the same. Gary Yukl, a leading researcher in the field of leadership, often refers to leadership as power. To exhibit influence over an individual or group, you must hold some sort of power over them (Ciulla, 2003). There are many different types of power and each come…

3. Carr’s allusion to the scuba diver is meant to illustrate how he feels like his brain is processing words now because of the Internet. A scuba diver is fully submerged and surrounded by water. The water in Carr’s metaphor is defined as “a sea of words”, so Carr is referring to how he used to fully submerge himself in many complex and in-depth readings. This drastically differs to zipping “along the surface [of the water] like a guy on a Jet Ski.” When on a Jet Ski, the rider is moving so fast…

If something makes you happy, does that mean that it is the best action? In the theory of Utilitarianism, there are two "creators," Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. They put forth the idea that actions are right only if they increase happiness, and are wrong if they result in unhappiness. In this essay, we explore the theory of Utility, and then understand the theory through Plato’s two challenges, whether an action is good beyond what a group or individual in authority claims, as well as if…

Do you have a computer or a self-phone? Technology is all around us in this world today. It is very common to have a phone or a computer of any kind or to even have both. People think only about the good things about technology but not about the bad things that are harmful to the consumers. Technology is very harmful to people because it rewires our brains and disconnects us from the world. Technology has rewired our brain over the years and dumbed us down that we have short attention spans. In…

According to dictionary.com, memory is the mental capacity of retaining facts, or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences. But memories are more than that. Memories define someone’s likes and dislikes, help recognize friends from enemies (Wilson). Memories are our own identity, all our knowledge and experience comes from them. Everyday of our life we are creating new memories. They are the base for taking decisions in a person’s life but are all those memories trustworthy? When you…

There are five philosophies of education that focus on teachers and students; essentialism, perennialism, progressivism, social reconstructionism, and existentialism. Essentialism is what is used in today’s classrooms and was helped by William Bagley in the 1930s. Perennialism is close to essentialism with the same idea of sharpening student’s minds and focusing on Great Books. Progessivism, social reconstructionism, and existentialism focus more on the wants and need of the students. Many…

students that formed the group “Die Brücke” were Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Fritz Bleyl. Fritz Bleyl left the group shortly after (Die Brücke). The name, Die Brücke, was taken from writings of the philosopher Friedrich Nietszche, of whom the group greatly admired. It was to symbolize the bridge they would cross to the art of the future. Specifically, it was taken from Nietszche’s Spake Zarathustra in which the prophet Zarathustra says that “what is great…

Eastern philosophy (including middle eastern) and Modern philosophy. Plato, Aristotle, Socrates are famous western philosophers, Siddartha Gautama (as known as Buddha), Confucius, Sun Tyu, Laozi are famous eastern philosophers, And Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche are famous modern philosophers. (Hour, 2010) (www.philosophy-index.com, n.d.) However, there are many more famous philosophers…