Nietzsche

Explain what Nietzsche refers to as the Bad Conscience, and how it relates to power in the individual case and in the case of a morality based on Bad Conscience.

Nietzsche explores the idea of Bad Conscience and sees it as limiting our power. Specifically, he connects the idea to promise-keeping and promise-breaking, to punishment, and to cultural institutions. Write an essay in which you: 1. Explain what Nietzsche takes to be the basis of social rules and morality. 2. Construct and defend an interpretation […]

Discuss and analyze the insights, ideas and philosophical position put forward by Nietzsche.

Philosophical Thinking Take-home test 3 You can submit your work at any time over the next week DUE: In your own words, interpret, explain and analyze ONE of the following three passages from Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols. Remember that what I am looking for above all is evidence of understanding the material, and of […]

write a 3-5 page essay either supporting or rejecting the following statement:

Using at least four of the philosophers studied in this course (Plato, Hesiod, Homer, The Sophists, Socrates, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Kant, Marx, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Locke, Berkeley, Hume) write a 3-5 page essay either supporting or rejecting the following statement: Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their […]

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