Friedrich Nietzsche

and spewing groundless “scientific” claims. Organized religion offers horrors interpreted with optimism in an attempt to amend it’s own role in the destruction of society. “Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?” (Friedrich Nietzsche) The fine tuning argument, the statement that changing the constants of the laws of physics just the slightest would result in a world which cannot form life, is a common defense of religion. Much like the creationist argument, it is…

This verse has a striking similarity with Nietzsche 's explanation of Gay Science that should carry the heaviest burden. Hafez also believes that this burden is so heavy that even the whole cosmological order could not carry it and flinched from accepting this huge responsibility and transferred it to human. His interpretation of "burden" gives primarily a negativ impression and later a positive one: when one undertakes the burden, first of all, its weight hunches one 's shoulder. But, it is in…

In order to understand what Nietzsche meant by “God is dead” one must first understand his theory on ethics, the larger context in it was written, and why he wrote it. A large portion of the frequent misunderstanding of Nietzsche and his work comes from the fact that he has a rather unusual approach to ethics…

Kultur versus Natur While German anthropologists rejected the theory of evolution, there was still an interest in understanding the relationship between Kultur and Natur. They rejected evolutionism because it “placed steric categories of human nature into a fluid continuum…” (Zimmerman, 2001, p. 69). Nature, to German anthropologists before the 20th century was perceived to be a “static system of categories that allowed them, in their study of natural peoples, to grasp an unchanging essence of…

In his collection of essays On the Genealogy of Morality, Nietzsche distinguishes between the moral systems of good/bad and good/evil and describes their origins, as well as problems that arise with the origins of good/evil in order to analyze two different moral systems and their implications. Nietzsche first distinguishes between the two moral systems of good/bad and good/evil in order to draw a contrast. Good/bad is defined as those with power and those without power: the good, like the…

Nietzsche perspective on contract and punishment is more compelling to me than the other thinkers. I also think that Nietzsche and Marx are overlapping in some areas, and also Marx and Weber. Nietzsche perspective sounds compelling to me, because he is explaining the moral words we are using based on its origin. We use moral concepts the way how it has been used a long time ago, and we use those concepts based on its history “, the moral conceptual world of ‘debt’, ‘conscience’, ‘duty’, ‘sacred…

As Nietzsche begins the preface on the Genalogy of Morals it seems he saying philosophers are not men of knowledge. However, their job is find knowledge. He goes on to introduce the subject matter of the essay, “the origin of our moral prejudices.” Prior to the Genealogy of Morals, he had also written a book title Human. In this book a lot the same thoughts appear as in the Genealogy of Morals, and he is hoping over time these thought have become clearer. Nietzsche states he has pondered for a…

Nietzsche, a German philosopher, had ideas that were often regarded as radical due to his false association with the Nazi party. Nietzsche’s critique of Christianity, “The Anti-Christ” expresses ideas that are often ridiculed, yet these seemingly radical ideas are supported by western writings dating back to the sixth century B.C. through the early fourteenth century. The controlling point in the excerpt from Nietzsche’s work is that pity is useless because it is felt for Christian sins which…

FINAL ASSIGNMENT CALEB TONY-ENWIN PHIL 1000 100939996 APRIL 2, 2015 Question 1: Explain why Kant did not end up with Hume 's skepticism as far as the notion of causality goes. For this question you are required to explain what Hume 's skeptical solution to the 'problem of causality ' is and then explain in detail how Kant avoids this skeptical solution (in other words, you will have to talk about what role causality plays in Kant’s system and how Kant…

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 transformations are not for everyone…