Nihilism

giving power. This shows that the speaker wonders why the sun wouldn't be able to restore life to his friend as this would be an easy task in comparison to giving life to the earth. The line “was it for this the clay grew tall?” emphasise the tone of nihilism. This line conveys the speaker’s disgust and bitterness towards the early death of his friend at the hands of a pointless war. The speaker is filled with bitterness that his friend’s potential has been wasted. The use of the word “O” again…

Shellshocked: Both Veterans and the Greater Community The shells were coming without stop, the only way we could function was by playing cards, and comforting one another. We could only imagine what it would look like once the shelling stopped. This is a common story of the many soldiers during the great war. Although everyone was excited and exuberant about the war in the beginning, soldiers began to regret going into the battle because the profiteers were sitting back at home, and they…

Weber’s distinction between zweckrational (instrumentally rational social action determined by purpose and expectations about a behaviour taken under a condition of scarcity) and wertrational (value-rational social action determined by belief in the unconditional intrinsic value of some acts of choice) is also fundamental to understand the pluralism on which individual and social social dynamics are grounded (Weber [1921] 1978). Pareto’s distinction as well as Weber’s different types of…

Well, this could have gone dramatically worse; more so, anyway. Since when do I give up without a good fight? It's time to get up, and show her what I'm made of. "I have no idea what you are talking about, to be perfectly frank. " I assure her, lying obviously. "Why would I access company files? I'm sure I have better things to do, rather than searching through crucial documents." "Who said anything about this being, because you seeked out a file?" Mrs. Starr raises one of her well shaped…

saying was mainly tongue-in-cheek. I do not really imagine anyone, let alone yourself, will write something impactful enough to change anything. Most of the time I am a cynic, like yourself, perhaps even more so than you because I often resonate with nihilism and you seem not to, and bug the shit out of people with my incessant pessimism. People tend not…

12 Angry Men is a compelling and profound film produced in 1957 directed by Sidney Lumet. This film set in a single room with just twelve cast member, these twelve play a jury called together to judge a murder case involving a young boy who is accused of murdering his father. The jury is charged with coming to a unanimous decision because the punishment is death penalty. Throughout the movie the cast is never referred to by name, rather by their jury numbers offering the viewer an air of mystery…

In James Joyce’s Dubliners (1914) and Seamus Heaney’s late twentieth century selected poems the treatment of personal loss simultaneously reveals similarities and reinforce the texts’ distinctive qualities addressing the question. Within both texts’ treatment of personal loss, each explicate critical and perceptive (context) insights regarding their respective social milieus (context) which expound visceral revelations relating to societal constructs and existentialism (context)…

Genealogy of Morality is a rejection and appreciation of slave morality. Nietzsche acknowledges the benefits which have stemmed from Christian slave morality, such as depth, accountability, and responsibility, but feels they are undermined by the guilt, nihilism, and ressentement it associated with them. In his writing he infers the importance of this morality as a form of enhancement of the capacities of man. However, he considers it more of an obstacle…

him of course when he talks to Smerdyakov and he is told that through his teachings he was able to commit murder because there will be no consequences for him to come to grips with. This also makes Ivan the mouthpiece of Dostoevsky’s message that nihilism is dangerous and should be avoided for when there are no morals, there are no laws, and things could go radically wrong. By exemplifying the modern Russian, we see a character who is unable to cope when he sees that he was wrong. This manifests…

affirmative action was disappearing, and the civil rights act, bussing policies, and policy’s surrounding housing, and institutional segregation were dismantled as well, completely leaving Black Americans shocked, uncertain, and stuck in a place of nihilism. 50 years to today, the nature of the problem remains the same within Black Politics, the system of the Supreme Court was considered to be untrustworthy and fails to acknowledge or benefit the black community. The nature of the problem facing…