Friedrich Nietzsche

up. Many philosophers have taken it upon themselves to define what it means to be a human being, and although similar in ways, their thoughts differ in many ways as well. Thinkers such as St. Augustine, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean Paul Sartre, and Thomas Hobbes illuminated the understanding of a human being and provided us with a clear description of the good life. Two thinkers who had opposing theories on the competing notions were Rousseau and Hobbes.…

21st century is known to be the start of new beginnings. It was that generation where machineries evolve the economics and social life of the human beings: from traveling to one place to another, a click of a button for communication, and to sending news to the residents of the world. But, as the year progress the mortals abused the capability of these machines. One of the problems is how they report news and how they edit stuff to create news and spread rumors. Can news reporters be fully…

With the nature of today’s technological world constantly changing, evolving, and progressing, debate has sparked on whether the modern marvels of technology have come too far. Technology scholars argue that new technology is constantly changing ourselves and society, but not necessarily in a negative manner. As humans have evolved technology has evolved with us, and is continually changing our everyday life, behavior, and future. Many claim that evolution has shown that a myriad variety of…

A standout amongst the most infamous tyrants of the twentieth century, Mussolini left a vital assemblage of works that uncover his move from communist fomenter to originator and pioneer of Italian autocracy. His belief system was firmly checked by a hyperbolic call to activity and an insubordinate tone of disobedience and additionally patriot talk with respect to his confidence in the likelihood of a resurrection of the beliefs of established Rome. Mussolini was conceived in the town of…

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Called, "The Mother of Dance", Isadora Duncan was one of the most influential dancers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her technique was a precursor to modern dance and she became very popular in Europe for her naturalistic approach to dancing and performances to classical music. She faced many struggles throughout her lifetime, with her children dying after their nanny had accidentally driven into the Seine River and her husband committing suicide. Then, not much later, Isadora died…

Kill or be killed is the only morality among the dogs of the Klondike, as Buck realizes from the moment he steps off the boat and watches the violent death of his friend Curly. The wilderness is a cruel, uncaring world, where only the strong prosper. It is, one might say, a perfect Darwinian world, and London’s depiction of it owes much to Charles Darwin, who proposed the theory of evolution to explain the development of life on Earth and envisioned a natural world defined by fierce competition…

TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 SARTRE’S LIFE AND WORK 4 METAPHYSICS: CONCIOUSNESS AND OBJECTIVES, ATHEISM 5 THEORY OF HUMAN NATURE: EXISTENCE AND ESSENCE, NEGATION AND FREEDOM 6 DIAGNOSIS: ANGUISH AND BAD FAITH, CONFLICT WITH OTHERS 7 PRESCRIPTION: REFLECTIVE CHOICE 7 THE “FIRST ETHICS”: AUTHENTICITY AND FREEDOM FOR EVERYONE 8 THE “SECOND ETHICS”: SOCIETY AND HUMAN NEEDS 8 CONCLUSION 9 REFERENCE LIST 10 INTRODUCTION This assignment focuses on Jean-Paul Sartre who was a philosopher…

struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” Throughout his career, famed German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche criticized what he saw as the degression of human society through conformity. It is not necessarily a negative trait, but like a virus it remains dormant until a sickness exposes the host. This vulnerability allows the virus to sweep…

this doubt. Paul Vitz, a professor of Psychology at New York University, wrote the book Faith of the Fatherless, the Psychology of Atheism, which talks about how atheist’s relationship with their father affects their relationship with God. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Bertrand Russell, David Hume, Jean-Paul Sartre, Voltaire, and Ludwig Feuerbach were famous intellectual atheists with dead, weak, abusive, or absent fathers. Vitz argues that the absence of a good, living father usually…