On the Genealogy of Morality

Fidelity for him means that he brings home a successor, only when the earlier one has left. Tendulkar's play is about this self-proclaimed hedonistic man. Sakharam, though apparently crude, aggressive and violent, has his own standards of personal morality. He is a man who is primarily honest and frank. This openness of his personality is in itself a sharp criticism of the…

Apart from Atheists, most humans believe in the existence of gods. Whether monotheistic or polytheistic, people understand the fact that there are spiritual beings that dwell beyond the scope of human visibility. The Archaic greeks also believed in this theistic phenomenon. Their culture was embedded in mythology, quaint superstition and a belief in prophetic fervor. When we analyze the Hesiodic Theogony and Works and Days, we would realize the features this Archaic greek culture overlap, to a…

Take a moment and think about your inner voice. Yes, the same one you’re using to read the words on this very page. That familiar tone which propels the narrative of thought following you (mainly unnoticed) from the moment you wake up until the moment you fall asleep. Have you ever wondered why you think the way you do, or why your reactions to external circumstances vary from that of other people’s? The majority of your life you are told that you are different and that everyone is an…

For my selection of critiques I have chosen Talal Asad’s On Suicide Bombing (2007), Saba Mahmood’s Politics of Piety (2004), and Reza Aslan’s No God but God (2005). Written in the post September 11th world and published after the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, all three of these texts developed in a volatile political world, one that juxtaposed American foreign policy goals with identity politics, as well as a distinct American social milieu, whose sole source of education about the Middle…

to different viewpoints of how power can be displayed and interacted with. Although a cartoon, Maus I & II graphically depict the holocaust from a unique yet universal point of view. Nietzsche in his confusing and extremely dense essay ‘On the Genealogy of Morals’ show the role of power in relations with others and also with the self. Borges collection…

The study of the awareness of monotheism was the study of Israelites who went from a henotheistic culture to a monotheistic culture. The Israelites were a henotheistic culture from the Exodus of the people from Egypt and gradually changed over their history and settlement in the land of Canaan to become a monotheistic nation at the time of the destruction of the Second Temple in 586 B.C.E. During this time as well as the exile of the Jews, the Pentateuch was written as four documents. This is…

Shakespeare’s play void of credit, but merely that Shakespeare used pre-existing texts to create a platform for which he imposed his own spin on the tale. The nineteenth-century German philosopher Nietzsche famously explored “the genealogy of ideas” in his book On the Genealogy of Morality: A Polemic, where he looked to explain that no idea was completely original and that the history of this idea could be traced just like a family tree. Thus, through exploring the origins of the Hamlet story,…

SUMMARY Adrian Goldsworthy’s book, Augustus First Emperor of Rome is an extensive biography examining the life and political dominance of Rome’s first emperor, Caesar Augustus. Goldsworthy states that he wrote this biography in an attempt to give a more detailed and accurate account of the life of Caesar Augustus. He believed that Caesar Augustus’ life was separated into three distinct time periods based on his given name at the time. “Thus, we have a man with three very distinct names at…

that culture because of the complexion of there skin. The reason why I believe Othello and Desdemona relationship was more cultural then race is because of the role of women in the 16th century Venice, Women were widely viewed as emblems of Catholic morality, serving primarily as matriarchs of the domestic household. They were instructed and expected to become devoted mothers, and to rear and raise their children as proper Christians. Religious and social changes gradually turned women’s…

For the follower of King Messiah there comes some many forthright questions which need to be answered in the regards of revelation of the Bible, how the Bible was inspired,and what is the authority of the Bible. In other words: is the Bible speaking to me? How do I know the Bible is not just another document? Why should this old book have authority over me? These are valid questions which many believers today take for granted. Yet, the importance of these questions infect the life of the…