Essays on Philosophers

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Analysis of Albert Camus' Thesis on Religion and Faith Through Literature

3 pages / 1530 words

"What is absurd is the confrontation between the sense of the irrational and the overwhelming desire for clarity which resounds in the depths of man." Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts...

Albert Camus One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich The Myth of Sisyphus

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Freud’s and Nietzsche’s Views on Human Morality

3 pages / 1459 words

Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud present profound critiques of human morality that challenge prevailing notions of virtue and ethics. Their perspectives depart from the conventional belief that morality is an innate aspect of human nature. Instead, they argue that morality arises in response to the...

Friedrich Nietzsche

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On The Proper Uses and Improper Abuses of History for The Existing Individual

4 pages / 1638 words

Friedrich Nietzsche’s On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life reads as a polemic against German historicism, the prevailing attitude of his time with respect to the value of history. Originally published as the second of four Untimely Meditations, this work offers a cultural...

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The Reactive Nietzsche: Contradictions in The Genealogy of Morals

4 pages / 1805 words

In his Genealogy of Morals Nietzsche censures the members of the Judeo-Christian tradition for their “impotence.” As a result of their impotence the descendents of this tradition (slaves, as I will call them to maintain some modicum of political correctness), have developed a hatred “to...

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Language and Nietzsche’s Critique of Suffering

3 pages / 1556 words

In his book On the Genealogy of Morality, Friedrich Nietzsche explores the relationship between suffering and guilt. Nietzsche argues that humans react to suffering by thinking that “someone or other must be guilty” (Nietzsche 94) for their suffering. Nietzsche critiques this phenomenon — that a...

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Nietzsche’s Assault on Modern Morality: The Kamehameha Ii Connection

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German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche is most remembered for the jarring statement, “God is dead,” but to reduce him to such a slogan would be to truncate an intricate and complex critique of morality into just three short words. Nietzsche saw the morality of his own...

Friedrich Nietzsche

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How People's Actions Define Who They Are: from Socrates to Sartre's Philosophy

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A major controversy in the philosophies of both the modern philosopher Sartre and the ancient philosopher Socrates is the argument regarding how life will unfold. Either every choice someone makes determines the next thing that may happen to that person, or his or her life...

Socrates

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The Cave Man as Illustrated by Steven Millhauser's Collection of Short Fiction and Socrates

1 page / 1588 words

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds” (Albert Einstein). When encountering the inexplicable, people’s visceral reactions often oscillate between fear and awe-nevertheless establishing the subject in terms of “otherness.” Steven Millhauser’s collection of short fiction, The Knife Thrower and Other Stories, explores...

Allegory of The Cave Socrates

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Negative Impacts of Science Proved by Friedrich Nietzshe

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In The Gay Science, Friedrich Nietzsche critiques the shortcomings and possibilities of modern science. In this critique, Nietzsche analyzes the limits of science, the ways in which science falsifies life, and the motivation for a scientific pursuit of knowledge. Although Nietzsche does not categorically reject...

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Aeschylus Poetics Structure on Tragedy Events Used by Libation Bearers and Eumenides.

1 page / 2431 words

As A.E. Haigh notes, Aristotle treats Aeschylus with complete indifference in the Poetics. Throughout his writings, the standards of dramatic writing are supplied by Sophocles and Euripides. He fully recognizes Aeschylus’ role in the introduction of a second actor and in the expansion of dialogue,...

Aristotle Tragedy

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Marxist Ideas in "The Difference Engines" and "The Communist Manifesto"

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The Difference Engine, co­written by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, imagines an alternate historical outcome during the industrial era of Europe in the late 19th century. The book follows three characters with different stories that intertwine respectively with their relation to the Kinotrope cards, a...

Karl Marx Manifesto of The Communist Party Marxism

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A Man's Desire Discussed in 'Discourse on The Origin of Inequality'

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Can a man living in society be content? In the essay, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, author Jean-Jacques Rousseau addresses this very question. Man first originated in the state of nature, where he was alone and only dependent on himself. Over time, natural man...

Rousseau

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The Ideal Purpose and Boundaries of Government: Rousseau and Burke

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The Age of Enlightenment brought a new era of political consciousness to Europe. No longer would the destiny of the Western world be limited to the clergy and their bewildered notions of Divine Command Theory – instead, rational intellectualism sought to reform political communities. New...

Rousseau

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Alienation in Society: Marx, Cavell, and Descartes

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Human beings are social in nature, depending upon one another in order to truly thrive. Modern life, however, seems to work against the conditions needed for humanity’s success, forcing members of society into alienation while under the illusion of a flourishing, collaborative social system. When...

Karl Marx Rene Descartes

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Madness and Civilization: Mind and Body of an Insane Person

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During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, humanity was beginning to discover and explore the connections and differences between the mind and the body, the body and the soul, the body and the surrounding world. It was during this period that “psychology was more neurological than...

Michel Foucault

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The All-encompassing Will of Power

5 pages / 2317 words

This world is the will to power and nothing besides. And you yourself are also this will to power and nothing besides. Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is customized to cater to your unique preferences + experts online Get my...

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Marxism and "The Lesson"

2 pages / 1097 words

As wealth inequality reached its zenith at the beginning of the 20th century, Marxist concepts such as social injustice and economic inequality became a major subject of discussion in western literature. With the death of Karl Marx in 1883 and the spread of Communism to...

Karl Marx Marxism

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Plato's Account on Rhetoric in The Gorgias

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The Gorgias by Plato has long been considered a disparaging dialogue that denounces both rhetoric and its practitioners for the unethical wielding of eloquence. However, numerous scholars have agreed that Plato’s account of rhetoric is both incomplete and deceptive. George Kennedy, a Platonic scholar, asserts...

Plato Rhetoric

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Correlation of The Morals Instilled by Aristotle, Gandhi, and The Dalai Lama

4 pages / 1680 words

The rationale of the Dalai Lama has been a concept passed down from many generations. Being a line of reincarnations, very rarely have the morals deviated from the original Dalai Lama. Said to embody compassion, the Dalai Lama defined his duty to serve humanity. In...

Aristotle Dalai Lama Mahatma Gandhi