Übermensch

From a solid elite New England pedigree family there was a young man name Ernest Lawrence Thayer who had a dream to change the poetry world. Growing up Ernest was pushed to best he can be even though school came easy to him. When he graduated college from Harvard University, he followed his friend from college out to San Francisco to join his friend’s dad’s newspaper company, “Hearst’s Paper “(Author Biography 56). Working at this company Mr. Thayer worked on obituaries, ballad poems, and…

Why is there a need for a title? To follow societal norms of writing a paper. However, the truth of the matter, is that there is no such thing as a normal person, a normal life, or a normal way of writing a paper. The concept of normalcy is artificial, a mere social construct based on popular opinion and the judgement of the influential, which deems anything otherwise as immoral or absurd. Literary works, such as Camus’ The Stranger and Sartre’s No Exit, allow us to reexamine our concepts of…

their crime. Dostoevsky reveals that psychological torment leads an individual to seek forgiveness and redemption, a sensation that is found in religion. We’re presented with the story of Raskolnikov, in which he attempts to test his published Ubermensch theory, in which humankind is separated into two categories: the ordinary and the extraordinary. Individuals…

Raskolnikov: A Freudian Psychoanalysis of the “Extraordinary Man” Raskolnikov is the type of character that Freud would have obsessed over: a man with a perceived sense of mental stability but with a realm of repressed desires — all the more reason to explore the unconscious, the uncharted realms of the human psyche. Contrary to Carl Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious, the dreams in Dostoevsky’s novel function as something beyond the characterization of archetypes common to multiple…

especially because, in a sense, it follows the Nietzschean idea of master morality. Also, being that narcissists do not apologize or ever admit that they are wrong to something they are at fault is immoral. It is wrong to believe that you are an Übermensch because they aren’t the only person living on this planet that deserves to be gloated with grandiose. I completely agree with Nietzsche that it indeed does stem from a problem of a morality, but I don’t believe that it can’t be treated with…

Self sacrifice is giving up one’s own desires in order to help another or a cause. In Crime and Punishment, Sonia and Raskolnikov are similar in the aspect that they both sacrifice for the benefit of others. Raskolnikov sacrifices his money several times throughout the novel and rather than feeling food, he instead feels regret. Raskolnikov constantly feels guilty when others sacrifice themselves for him and he does not understand that people can sacrifice out of kindness. Whereas, Sonia…

As previously stated, nihilism suggests that life is meaningless, and rejects any kind of religious and moral principles. Our society’s moral codes and ethics are fundamentally based on Judeo-Christianity, and since our society is slowly drifting away from religion, with nothing to replace it, we can only reach the conclusion that there is absolutely no objective truth, right or wrong, value and meaning in life. In Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, nihilism is a prominent feature, mostly…

I am a theist and I believe god does exist which many philosophers like Alfred Russel Wallace, Archbishop Selby, and Sayyid Qutb etc. They try to prove that god is not dead. But I think that the argument for God is dead because there reasons are better even though I think God is not dead. Karl Marx believed that God and religion were running society and was corrupting people. Marx’s opinion was that religion is an illusion that provides reasons and excuses to keep society functioning. Karl Marx…

In Prejudice or Preference, a situation is presented that brings up issues of fairness. Magnolia, a client that has earned a company a significant amount of money in years past, has lost its connection to the main company with the recent loss of Sam, a senior professional. Though Magnolia's business presently remains with the company, this is now in jeopardy. Sam is likely to bring Magnolia's business to his new company unless a worthy associate is put in charge of the Magnolia account.…

In Everything Burns: the psychology and philosophy of the Joker, author Anthony Nowicke makes an unsuccessful attempt to convince the audience that the Joker’s appeal is due to human’s instinctive desire to rebel. Nowicke uses a majority of lower level vocabulary and only circles around his main point of existentialism. By failing to establish ethos, spending more time explaining existentialism rather than providing extrinsic proofs, and losing focus Nowicke fails to rhetorically persuading…