Friedrich Wieck

Philip K Dick and Stanislaw Lem were among many postmodernist science fiction writers to be influenced by Nietzsche theory of eternal recurrence. Nietzsche’s explains the theory of eternal recurrence in “The Gay Science” as; “ This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable amount of times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will…

My Thoughts: To me, it seems like Nietzsche is saying here that the fact that most of us would not be content to relive our lives exactly as they are, over and over, should clue us in that we need to change our behavior. Maybe the very consideration of whether or not we’d be content to experience things exactly the same way again could help us to act in ways that make us more “benevolent toward life.” My Thoughts: This passage confused me a little bit. I can understand the suffering by those…

In 1844, Marx and Engels met and discovered they had similar principles. The idea of communism started with Karl Marx (Marxism) and Friedrich Engels in approximately 1848. The founders developed an idea of a society that had no property and that everyone worked for each other. This idea displays that individual people cannot own any property. Marx met Engels in Paris, where they became intellectuals. Marx was then exiled and moved to London with his family. Marx was a philosopher from Germany…

Nietzsche is one of Foucault’s more repetitive and positive reference points in some of his writings. In a close look at both Foucault and Nietzsche, one would find a profound use of criticizing power of the will thesis and using other historical thinkers such as Freudian and Marxist beliefs and ideas. Both philosophers, Foucault and Nietzche had a longing to articulate and speak out about concepts and theories like rhizome and other conventionally perceived concepts and ideas that pertain to…

“God is dead,” claimed Friedrich Nietzsche. Such bold statements defined Nietzsche’s nonconformity and his critical attitude towards the public and Christianity in the late 1800’s. A nonconformist is one who does not comply with society's standards and opinions as a whole. Nietzsche fit this role of nonconformity perfectly, he disagreed with common opinions, criticized mainstream religion, and argued with modern philosophy. Friedrich Nietzsche was born in 1844 in Röcken, Germany. Nietzsche had…

does not mean that worker produces the same results as his peers. When Marx thinks that “a worker should not only earn the same as her colleagues, if she works according to her ability, but also earn according to her needs” (Marx, Karl and Engels, Friedrich. “The Communist Manifesto”. Course Document). This idea does not make sense when considering jobs that requires skill and talent. For example when a surgeon performs open heart surgery on a loved one, do you want the doctor who works hard or…

Born on April 12, 1777, Henry Clay was a devoted nationalist.. He was very influential in the United States sectional conflict, economic prosperity, and development of its infrastructure. When Clay was 4 years old, his father died and he was considered an orphan, even though his mother did not die until 1829. Clay only had three years of formal education, yet the Virginian still became a lawyer by self educating himself. At the age of 20 years, Clay migrated to Kentucky to begin his career as…

Throughout Nietzsche’s On The Genealogy of Morality, he takes a speculative trip throughout time to determine the drastic change in the morals of society. In his analysis he address the ascetic ideals as the bedrock that lead to the ultimate change of society to slave morality from master morality. The ascetic ideals also set up a vicious cycle to spread the “sickness” throughout the population. Nietzsche notes that a key problem of the ascetic ideals is it’s infectious nature. The best…

The Communist Manifesto is a political pamphlet written in 1848 by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It was published in London just as the series of political upheavals began to erupt, which were also known the Revolutions of 1848. The Communist Manifesto explains the goals of Communism and the theory underlying the influential movement. It argues that class struggles are the motivating force behind all historical developments. The Manifesto was later identified as one of the…

Although many valid points were made in The Communist Manifesto, a few fatal flaws exist in his ideology. The United States has tried communism, but it was not until this system’s failure that property rights and capitalism took hold. Although many valid points were made in Marx’s The Communist Manifesto, a few fatal flaws exist in his ideology. The United States has tried Communism, and it was not until communism failed that property rights and capitalism took hold. In 1607, 104 settlers…