Friedrich Wieck

Arthur Miller’s “Are You Now or Were You Ever” discusses his purpose in writing the The Crucible and how the accusations that were made toward him led to the development of the play. During the 1950’s, there was a fear among society in the United States regarding communism. Communism is a political theory in which everyone in society works and is paid depending on their needs and property is publicly owned. Russia had once been a threat to the United States and its influence of communism still…

The essence of the communist ideology and the methods of its implementation. Communism originates from the socialist theory of Marx and Engels; they first proposed an ideology that radically changes the existing political regime, as well as the social and economic structure of the state. However, some political scientists and philosophers are convinced that the famous "Republic" of Plato and "Utopia" by Thomas More are the very first models of communist society. Communist…

Of those philosophers who seek to define life in some way, mostly positively, there are a set of provoking souls who seek to uproot any optimistic perspective such as Friedrich Nietzsche. He sees life as a bleak, ephemeral, meaningless, and deceptive time from birth until death as he explains in the essay “On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense.” One of the subjects he especially focuses on is the topic of metaphors in language and naming empirical objects that surround us. When a human hears…

‘good’ in advance and spontaneity: the ‘bad’ and ‘evil’ originates from noble man arising out of insatiable hatred. This is the essential act of conception of slave morality (Friedrich Nietzsche sec. 11). Slave revolt in morality begins with resentment that becomes a creative force, and in turn gives birth to these values (Friedrich Nietzsche sec. 10); it is a reaction to oppression. While all noble affirmation is as a result of affirmation of one’s self, slave morality is negative and reactive…

Nietzsche idea of "the overman" is one of the most significant concept in his thinking. In his Will to Power excerpts, he doesn’t mention the term ”the overman” as much in the excerpt, he does give various characteristic to the term. (i.e page 276, columns 997­999) making it more than obvious vision on how a man should be more than just human ­all­ too­ human, regardless if he was one or not. All these ideas had been pondered on and developed though all his works. This, more or less,…

The secret history by Donna Tartt Nietzsche’s philosophy has made for itself a unique cornerstone in the sense that it is not involved with pedantic aspects of ethics branches of epistemology. This seminal German thinker moves swiftly along majority of philosophical schools of thought. In his exploration of the classical elements in literature, as found in the ancient Hellenic society, is manifested beautifully in the Birth Tragedy. The longstanding debate between the subjectivity and the…

society was progressing during the industrial revolution and was able to predict many aspects of what would happen to the proletariat class as the bourgeoisies continued to gain power. In 1848 the communist Manifesto was published by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels but Engels credited the majority of the manifesto to being written by Marx’s. This eventually became the most important political text in human history; which led to people knowing Marx’s as “the father of communism” (Wood,3,6). In the…

Friedrich Nietzsche and Soren Kierkegaard were both highly respected philosophers; Nietzsche for his influences in the Nazi movement and Kierkegaard for his pseudonymous writings. Although they both opposed Christianity, their oppositions were quite different. Nietzsche despised the entire idea of Christianity, whereas Kierkegaard disliked the westernization of the Religion. While Kierkegaard sought to return Christianity to its origins and de-westernize it, Nietzsche sought to remove it from…

Throughout William Goldings’ novel, Lord of the Flies, the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche are subtly presented within each character’s distinct qualities. Although Golding had never read Nietzsche’s ideas before, Lord of the Flies exhibited the same concepts as Nietzsche’s work. Even though they came from completely different worlds, Golding and Nietzsche had similar ideas on controversial ideas. While both Golding and Nietzsche had opinions on the same subject, they did not always have the same…

Figurative language, as a core pillar of language, has played a major part in the development, discovery and creation of most, if not all the concepts in our real world today. Nietzsche, Plato and Aristotle, are three well noted philosophers who all believed that a great extent of our knowledge and everything that we know today and believe to be true is in someway metaphors and illusions. They all understood the strong bond that knowledge and metaphors had. However, they each viewed metaphors…