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Vinnie Demore Professor Marzi History 1050-02 23 September 2016 The Working Man During the 1800’s The industrial Revolution was a big change in history. It began in England in 1760’s to about 1840. During this time England’s population was growing and the textile industry couldn’t keep up by hand. All clothing and household materials like towels and blankets were made out of cotton. Since the population was growing so much and the demand for cotton was high, the industry knew that by hand they…

philosophers and thinkers have tried to answer this, and have composed strikingly different conceptions. Some of the most notable thinkers are Friedrich Nietzsche and Thomas Hobbes. Both try to provide the most accurate representation of the human being. Through understanding the human person, we are able to formulate a description of the good life. Friedrich Nietzsche defines us as a human being through the state of becoming, that in our nature we are an unfinished product. Who we are is in…

In the 1882 collection The Gay Science German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche first stated the idea “God is dead!” a point which he later referred back to throughout his body of work. The death of God has become a widely quoted statement and as such has met various interpretations and misinterpretations leading to a wide general debate as to whether Nietzsche was actually correct in proclaiming the death of God. In answering this question, it becomes of fundamental importance that there must be…

Seminal German philosopher Frederick Nietzsche published On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life in 1874. Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Historie für das Leben in the original German, the work is also often translated as “The Use and Misuse of History for Life.” The seventy-page work is packed with philosophical inquiries into the role historical knowledge plays in an individual’s life and how this knowledge can best be used to improve one’s wellbeing. It is the second work in a…

According to Nietzsche, The first essay in his book “Genealogy of Morality’’ that there are two kinds of morals that is master morality and the slave morality. For master morality, good is the powerful beautiful, and glorious while bad is the weak and the ugly. Slave morality on the other hand call the masters evil for having no reservations on how they use their power over the weak. This therefore makes the compassionate and the respectful weak good. What Nietzsche seeks to establish is that…

History Final The Communist Manifesto The Communist Manifesto is a pamphlet written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and published on February 21, 1848. The Manifesto is a call to arms against capitalism and the bourgeoisie. They illustrate in simple terms so everyone can understand, that with the overthrow of unequal hierarchies of feudalism, came a split between classes because of capitalism. They state “Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps - the…

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, social critic, poet, philologist / linguist, and Greek / Latin scholar whose work has made a weighty impact on Western philosophy and modern history. He was acclaimed as “The Critic of All That Exists” for his negative criticism of our social norms and how we blindly follow. Nietzsche was born on October 15, 1844 in Röcken, Germany, He began his career as a classical philologist which is the study of language, it is also a combination of…

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” This quote was written by George Orwell in his book Animal Farm, one of Orwell’s most famous novels. Throughout history the subject of a distant dystopia has always been explored in many works of literature. The possibility of humanity falling into a bleak and totalitarian society has always fascinated readers. These stories and themes can come to define an author and their legacy as a writer. There is no greater example of…

Karl Marx is one of the best known philosophers and one of the best known social scientists of all time. He is often referred to as the “Father of Communism,” and is very rightfully so. His very radical viewpoints have served as a foundation for the political and social ideologies of socialism and even more primarily communism. Although he and his viewpoints were heavily rejected by fellow philosophers and other people of his time, they gained much more prominence in the early 20th century…

Marxist Criticism Analysis in Doll’s House Play Karl Marx produced an exceeding complex theory consisting of at least three inter-related elements: a theory of economics, a theory of social class, and a theory of history. The working class that Marx called proletariat is paid too little to buy all the products the workers have made. The basic idea of Marxism is the Human thought is the product of the socio-economic condition (Letterbie 1259). Although this idea shows how the upper class is…