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from a degree of torment, the sources of our greatest joys lying awkwardly close to those of our greatest pain" (De Botton 215). ...

the distinction between good and evil that is recognizable and notable. In order to understand the link between Nietzsches prem...

relevant. It seems that in part, Nietzsches ideas could have prompted anti-Semitism and the government types that would culminate ...

And Nietzsche might agree. After all, if morality is a fluke, then everything is okay. Of course, in other writings, Nietzsche di...

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

can compare this to how humans contemplate form. It is not easy. If one stretches the allegory and sees it as symbolic of humans o...

In six pages this paper examines how society's outlook is reflected in individual perceptions in an analysis of Nietzsche's On the...

in his own personal progress at the cost of everything else. He was wholly supportive of the scientific community during the Enli...

In five pages this paper applies Nietzsche's Existentialism to an analysis of exile in The Awakening by Kate Chopin and A Streetca...

of money and they will all essentially be wealthy. In the end the townspeople kill this man so they will receive the money....

In five pages this paper considers how Nietzsche might evaluate Sartre's primary themes and then consider how The Handmaiden's Tal...

In five pages the issue of causality and its nature regarding human existence understanding are examined from the philosophical pe...

history of the Civil War and the Reconstruction. In essence, Griffith is recounting the tales told to him by his father, who was a...

Many of the physicians who prescribed it reported back that not only did it give a deep, "almost hypnotic" sleep to the patients w...

to understand the last mans comprehension of these notions, and why the last man is not able to create beyond himself, one has to ...

knowledge is not as important as faith. That is a significant difference between the two. At the same time, neither admits that hu...

meaning; however, it has a totally different meaning if one steals from a prosperous bakery in order to keep ones family from star...

he had the same words of contempt. Under an absolute monarchy, he believed, the military or law-enforcing caste was unduly exalte...

aside and did not dig any deeper--there is also something suspicious in it." " (Nietzsche 257). It is here that the philosopher im...

for Life," commenting that ...we must seriously despise instruction without vitality, knowledge which enervates activity, and his...

and philosophy have looked at such issues. Some contemporary philosophers claim that all things are really comprised of energy and...

In four pages this paper examines how Plato and Socrates were philosophically viewed by Nietzsche. Two sources are cited in the b...

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares these two German theorists in a discussion of their views on society's functions, s...

In five pages this paper contrasts the perspectives of Freud and Nietzsche regarding how human lives are impacted by instincts tha...

In three pages this paper examines morality principles in a comparison and contrasting of Civilization and Its Discontents by Freu...

In five pages this paper imagines a debate among this quartet of political theorists are reflected in their literary works....

In five pages this paper examines the work's 3rd essay in a consideration of such issues as asceticism, religion, and mental illne...

In ten pages this paper discusses how contrary to popular opinion Nietzsche actually supports rather than rejects the man's need f...

In five pages this paper considers the similarities between Irvin Yalom's When Nietzsche Wept and Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. ...

upon expressing an objective truth. For example, approving of an action and stating that the action is right can be construed as ...