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Heidegger & Nihilism

is the ability of human beings to question that is at the foundation of human nature. As this suggests, for Heidegger, Being is th...

'Dr. Heidegger's Experiment' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Each character in the story has their own agenda. Medbourne was once successful but had lost his money and Killigrew had given in ...

Theory of Dasein and Be-ing Devised by Martin Heidegger

how the very nature of perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain ...

Hawthorne and Anti-Transcendentalism

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at literary anti-transcendentalism. Hawthorne's short story, "Dr. Heidegger's Experimen...

Dasein Concept of Martin Heidegger

In six pages this paper discusses 'they' and how this relates to the inauthentic and authentic self within the context of Heidegge...

Being and Time of Martin Heidegger

In four pages this paper examines the concept of Being as the primary component in the arguments established in Being and Time and...

Philosophy of Martin Heidegger and Transcendence

In five pages the transcendence theory of Martin Heidegger is discussed and compared with those of Friedrich Nietzsche. Four sour...

Being and Time by Martin Heidegger

In five pages this paper examines Heidegger's philosophy as represented in Being and Time in his analysis of Dasein. There is 1 s...

Nihilism: An Overview of Perspectives

moral fact by levying skepticism towards the basis of those moral truths and facts (Sinnott-Armstrong, 2011). For instance, one mi...

Nietzsche And Heidegger: Art & Aesthetics

myriad philosophies by which people live their lives that help to maintain order and a sense of direction where otherwise there wo...

Religion According to Martin Heidegger

between knowing a subject and that object of thought and he presents this as an artificial distinction in that the object that one...

Comparison of the Philosophical Concepts of Plato and Martin Heidegger

can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...

Meditation Value, Zen Buddhism, and Martin Heidegger

In nine pages this paper considers Zen Buddhism and Heidegger's teaching in a discussion of how meditation and its value relates t...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Short Stories and the Theme of Temptation

In six pages this paper examines how temptation is featured in the Hawthorne short stories 'Young Goodman Brown,' 'The Minister's ...

Man's Greatest Good and Values

philosophical thought begs to differ. In the pre-Plato period, for example, the prevailing belief was that pleasure was immediate ...

Exotic Dancing and Moral Nihilism

who has decided to take up smoking, go for an extended trip to the country, or fix dinner. "What I relate," Nietzsche wrote in The...

Nihilism in the Character of Bazarov in Fathers and Sons by Turgenev

both the peasantry and their oppressors, Turgenev invented the very word "nihilist" in "Fathers and Sons". He writes:...

Nietzsche Philosophy Essays

In about fifteen pages Nietzsche's philosophies are analyzed in this collection of essays that discuss such concepts as nihilism, ...

Western Civilization's Decline According to Fyodor Dostoevsky and Friedrich Nietzsche

In 4 pages this paper considers how Nietzsche and Dostoevsky similarly believed Western Civilization was declining but viewed diff...

Attila Jozsef's Perched on Nothing's Branch

This poetry collection and the nihilism that is thematically expressed by poet Attila Jozsef are analyzed in four pages. There ar...

Analysis of Race Matters by Cornel West

In eleven pages this 1993 text is examined in terms of individual chapters that deal with Malcolm X's black society influence mobi...

Issues in 'The Antichrist' by Friedrich Nietzsche

In twenty five pages this essay discusses the predictions of Friedrich Nietzsche featured in The Antichrist as they regard science...

Politics, Science, and Freedom According to Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper discusses Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy with an examination of his perspectives regarding political sh...

Modern Youth and Nihilism

In five pages this essay examines the 'street culture' of young black men and how they illustrate concepts of nihilism. Four sour...

Frederick Henry in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms

pictured offering ironic commentaries on sculpture and art, with his conversation peppered with "allusions to Samuel Johnson, Sain...

Friedrich Nietzsche and Nihilism

2001). In addition to a belief in nothing, nihilists often have an impulse to destroy perhaps anything that is based on a belief s...

Various Definitions of Postmodernism

intellectual movement in its early days, it is increasingly becoming divided into different factions which have a direct relevance...

Hesse's Novel Demian

religion being interpreted, or misinterpreted, by human beings that they were no longer valid....

The Absurd

philosophers and playwrights, addressed themselves to the reality of the absurdity of life and argued that that its reality should...

Nihilism: Turgenev, Dostoevsky

This research paper describes how Ivan Turgenev addresses nihilism in his novel Fathers and Children and compares this to Dostoevs...