Friedrich Wieck

After some colloquial commentary on the demystification of religion, as discussed through its thorough analysis in “The Future of Illusions,” Freud guides the reader toward the preliminary investigative question of the text viz., is civilization a harm or a benefit to humanity? Throughout the inquiry, the reader is challenged with some appalling characteristics of humanity that materialize as self-evident. The Freudian methodology elicits these commonly held aspects of reality into a focused…

Genealogy of Morals by Nietzsche is a compilation of critiques to which he questions moral judgements and its genealogical origin. In Nietzsche’s first essay, he refers to two different types of morality. The first being master morality and the second being slave morality. Firstly, the master morality is created by the master or the one who is obstinate. Masters were to free to think and do what they want, whereas, slaves were subordinate and follow the master. To Nietzsche, being a master is…

Friedrich Nietzsche strongly opposes the Socratic way of thinking. Socrates wanted to eliminate all remnants of myth and tragedy in modern culture and replace it with an age of reason where the theoretical man has the most power. The theoretical man wishes to reveal all of the world’s secrets before him because he is following Socrates’ belief that “knowledge is virtue”. Nietzsche opposes this idea for two reasons: the elimination of myth and tragedy from the world will make us unfulfilled as a…

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels are known for founding the extensive, socio-economical ideology recognized as “Marxism”. Their high browed work was focused on a worldwide apprehension of the socio-economic problems that seemed to emerge within the human nature and organized societies . The facet of Marx and Engels' revolutionary ideology is centered on the concept that people needed to “actively change” the socio-economic system to a better form, instead of trying to preserve the existing state…

The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche remains very misunderstood because of his mental condition and his writings. Even the translation from German to other languages (English, French, or Spanish) creates difficulties because Nietzsche meaning is complex. He was influenced many authors, thinkers, and philosophers like Arthur Schopenhauer, Immanuel Kant, and Voltaire. His ethics came at a time where Germany was an influence on the world, but not a superpower and Judeo-Christian morals were…

Manifesto was considered one of influential documents during the 1840's and still today. The Communist Manifesto was a pamphlet that originally had twenty-three pages, but it was so inspiring to many people. This Manifesto was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The pamphlet discusses subjects that were not unheard of nor new, but Marx and Engels were the first to write a powerful paper copy of all the ideas of the past and hopes for the future. The Communist Manifesto was represented…

Nietzsche’s method begins with the doubt: is there a distinction between a thing and its meaning. The same things have different meaning at the different time, but people usually consume that it is all the same. He also shows the valuation “good and evil”, “good and bad”. To the noble, “good” is powerful and life-asserting. The “evil” is equal with what the noble calls it “good”. The weak is oppressed by the noble, but the noble still called that is “good”. They came themselves as good when they…

Going from a Deleuzian perspective, Friedrich Nietzsche’s understanding of Christian love could be compared as something too complex to be just labeled as sadism or masochism. In Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Anti-Christ, he begs to differ but also takes the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s concepts of sadism and masochism from Deleuze’s Coldness and Cruelty under consideration. Analyzing Christian love through the filter of sexual perversion isn’t as unbelievable as one would think. Aspects of…

Nietzsche is a German philosopher who prefers writing in aphorisms (rather than essays) and uses irony, sarcasm, and poetry to express his ideas. The main thing that he always talks about is the fact believed by him, that GOD IS DEAD. In Zarathustra’s prologue when Zarathustra was alone he spoke thus to his heart: “Could it be possible! This old saint in his woods has not yet heard the news that God is dead!” Another important concept is the contrast between the overman and the last man. The…

The Communist Manifesto was written by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the 1840’s. It was written during the time period of massive revolutions across Europe. However, its influence would further shape the social and political landscape of Europe during the twentieth century. The Communist Manifesto provided an analytical perspective of the struggle of classism and the problems associated with capitalism. Marx and Engels indicated that at some point in time the communist…