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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Friedrich Nietzsche."”.
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Friedrich Nietzsche and Henri Bergson: a comparison of their moral philosophies
The similarities between Nietzsche and Bergson can be seen in the reactions of both thinkers to Darwinism, the vitalism that both philosophers utilized to explain life's evolution, the distinction made by the two thinkers between men and great men, the developmental frame of reference applied by …
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Self-deception at the intersection of Friedrich Nietzsche and the Apostle Paul
Self-deception is a key component in Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of ressentiment. It also plays a significant role in Paul’s notion of the fall. This thesis explores issues of self-deception in the realm of Nietzsche-Paul discourse. Specifically, Nietzsche’s explication of self-deception inherent …
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In a Garden of Lions: a Creative Rendering Inspired by the Three Metamorphoses of Friedrich Nietzsche
… decade ago, during the summer of 2002, I read Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. It made an indelible mark: even the colors and smells of that roof-top porch in Toronto where I read it all the way through still arise in the forefront of my mind every time I think of this text. Since …
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Fierce Flames and the Golden Lotus: Case Studies on the Madness and Creativity Connection
… examined are Gustave Flaubert, Hector Berlioz, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath.
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Fierce Flames and the Golden Lotus: Case Studies on the Madness and Creativity Connection
… examined are Gustave Flaubert, Hector Berlioz, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath.
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Nietzsche's Dialogic Ethic After Illusion: Rhetoric and Difference
… of the interpenetration of ethics and rhetoric, Friedrich Nietzsche, as a novel hermeneutic entry to engage these questions and demarcates the fields of inquiry this study addresses.</p><p> The present work begins with meeting the contemporary historical moment characterized by metanarrative …
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Við erum manneskjur
… Sókratesar í túlkun Platons, Hönnu Arendt og Friedrich Nietzsche og kenningu Sigmund Freud um eðlishvatir. Á grundvelli þessara hugsuða, ásamt vitund og veruleika höfundar, er rannsóknarspurningunni svarað á þann veg að Þjónandi forysta birtist í Leo og hjúkrunarfræðingi McMurphy í …
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Eye for the Gap: Frenzy, Liberty, and the Nietszchean Chorus in Conor McPherson's The Weir and Shining City
… of Dionysian aesthetics as elucidated by Friedrich Nietzsche. Working through the lenses of Samuel Beckett’s linguistic philosophy and the premium of theater as established by Nietzsche, Artaud, and Brecht, the aim of this paper is to demonstrate how McPherson pierces the boundaries of …
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'Equivocity' and Metaphorical Meaning
… attention is given to Donald Davidson and Friedrich Nietzsche. It is argued that these two philosophers, despite their positions on polar opposites of a theoretical continuum, have much in common and that their views share common problems that infect the entire continuum. Finally, an …
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Nietzsche's and Dewey's contextual challenge to value theory
… Pragmatism as it concentrates on the works of Friedrich Nietzsche and John Dewey. Nietzsche and Dewey are two of the most significant figures in post-Kantian value theory, and they cast a long shadow both within and beyond the philosophical discussion. The focal point of this project however is …
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The use and abuse of genealogy : genealogical critique from Nietzsche to Said
… traces the use and abuse of genealogy, from Friedrich Nietzsche to Edward Said. After elucidating Nietzsche and Michel Foucault's coherent configuration of the genealogical method in their own philosophical projects, it critically deconstructs and rejects the claim that the post-colonial …
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The Philosophy of Time in Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, and The Waves
… theories of Henri Bergson, Albert Einstein, and Friedrich Nietzsche. The study highlights the examination of time as a process that has obsessed centuries of writers, intellectuals, and scholars. It also demonstrates Woolf’s belief that the concept of time is a human construction. The project …
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The rhetorical structure of disability : bridging the gap between what is 'spoken' and what is 'said' with song - over-signifying with personhood against the backdrop of disease-centric discourse.
… within a vacuum, utilizing the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche in explanation of reason in grammatical structure. Ultimately, utilizing Jean Baudrillard's concept of "over-signification" the paper concludes with the advocacy of traversing the grammatical reasoned structure of the …
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Sakamoto Ryoma: the Nietzschean hero of the Meiji Restoration
<p>This thesis is a Nietzschean analysis of Meiji Restoration hero Sakamoto Ryoma (1835 - 1867). It discusses the life and times of Sakamoto and basic theories of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900). It argues that despite vastly different historical, cultural, and ideological backgrounds, Sakamoto …
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Η αρχαία ελληνική τραγωδία μέσα από το πρίσμα της νιτσεϊκής και της μπερξονικής φιλοσοφίας
… μέσα το πρίσμα της φιλοσοφικής σκέψης του Friedrich Nietzsche και του Henri Bergson, αναδεικνύοντας τις θεωρητικές συγκλίσεις και αποκλίσεις των δύο στοχαστών μέσα από τη συγκριτική εξέταση των βασικών φιλοσοφικών τους εννοιών. Ως προς τη νιτσεϊκή ερμηνεία, η τραγωδία ερευνάται μέσα από τις …
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Tapping accounting with a hammer : a radical examination of accounting in the light of Nietzsche
… and reflecting an external and knowable reality. Friedrich Nietzsche showed that we can only grasp the "real world" by means of useful fictions conditioned by our own perspective on the world. Any attempt to describe the world will always be distorted by the various contingent social, economic and …
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Albert Camus : Existentialist and Humanist
… century philosophies of Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche, but even deeper origins may be seen in the seventeenth century figure, Blaise Pascal, and in the radical restructuring of society begun in the Renaissance. It is a mistake to think of the phenomenon of existentialism as merely a …
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An enquiry into Nicolai Hartmann's appreciation of Nietzsche's axiology
… this respect than Nicolai Hartmann who considers Friedrich Nietzsche to have been his immediate predecessor. Yet Hartmann is not well known in the English-speaking world. The following study represents an attempt to explain Hartmann's position in epistemology, ontology and ethics, stressing the …
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Walking Nietzsche's tightrope: a thesis for no one
The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche is thought-provoking and enigmatic. This work is an exploration of three of the bulwarks of Nietzsche's philosophy and an attempt to trace their political implications. Analyses of Nietzsche’s concepts of the will to power, eternal return, and the Übermensch …
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