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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"will to power"”.
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Nietzsche's will-to-power ontology : an interpretation of Beyond Good and Evil
Abstract: Nietzsche's Will-to-Power Ontology: An Interpretation of Beyond Good and Evil § 36 By: Mark Minuk Will-to-power is the central component of Nietzsche's philosophy, and passage 36 of Beyond Good and Evil is essential to coming to an understanding of it. 1 argue for and defend the thesis …
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Nietzsche's Ariadne: a new perspective on the eternal recurrence
… that Nietzsche undertakes Ariadne as a solution to the inadequacies of Dionysus (the loneliness of what assimilates in the enaction of its values, what negates in alignment towards itself) precisely because she is a woman—and hence most capable of inverting the philosophical concept Woman as a …
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Walking Nietzsche's tightrope: a thesis for no one
… 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 are presented in an effort to build a coherent vision of Nietzsche’s work. The will to power has been interpreted in …
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NIETZSCHE. ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΠΟΛΛΑΠΛΟΤΗΤΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΣ ΜΑΣΚΑΣ
… JASPERS, KAUFMANN) REFERS ON THE ONE HAND TO THE FACT THAT HE IS PRESENTING A PHILOSPHY OF MULTIPLICITY, THAT TO HIM THE ESSENCE OF BEING IS MULTIPLICITY, AND ON THE OTHER TO THE FACT THAT HE HIMSELF STATES THE ESSENCE OF BEING IS THE WILL TO POWER, THAT IT PLACES UNITY (WHICH SEEMS …
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Tragic philosophy and human desire : bringing Nietzsche and Plato into conversation with contemporary ethics.
… most importantly the limitation of human desire to the instrumental. In response, Brewer, drawing primarily from Aristotle, develops an account of human desire that finds fulfillment-without-ceasing within "dialectical" activity, that is, activity that has an object irreducible to a …
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Sakamoto Ryoma: the Nietzschean hero of the Meiji Restoration
… 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 and …
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A Nietzschean investigation of the attainment of consciousness and emancipation by android hosts in HBO’s 'Westworld'
… first season of HBO's series Westworld and it will specifically focus on the development experienced by the two hosts Maeve and Dolores. The analysis will be undertaken by means of the application of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy. The dissertation's main focus will be the theme of …
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Vision and desire: Jim Morrison's mythography beyond the death of God
The poetry of Jim Morrison, as opposed to his lyric verse, has been the subject of little critical examination. The aim of this paper is to open up an understanding and interpretation of a mythographic landscape developed by Morrison in his response to existence in a demythologised western culture. …
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Nihilism and emptiness: Nishitani's encounter with Nietzsche
… I examine the relationship between the Kyoto School philosopher, Nishitani Keiji, and the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, focusing on the two thinkers’ respective approaches to the problem of nihilism. The work begins by positioning Nishitani’s interpretation of Nietzsche’s account of nihilism …
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On Human Hating: Toward a Pragmatism of Hate
Hating is an activity which can be useful to human endeavors. This study is a Pragmatic inquiry, and, as such, attempts to answer the question: What difference can our hating make to our projects, goals, and aspirations? We treat hate as an emotion, bracketed from any moral or ethical concerns, …
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Flack
… of social satire and political farce. The story recounts the events surrounding a contemporary campaign for the United States Senate, structured and narrated in a traditional manner, covering the events leading up to the campaign and delving into the private life of the first-person …
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Colonial Theology: John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charles Darwin and the Emergence of the Colonial-Capitalist World System, 1500-1900
… world system from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth century. World systems and postcolonial approaches to colonial expansion have often reduced questions of theology to a discursive feature of producing difference through the binary frame of self/other in order to justify a will to …
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Redemption and the Other: The Supernatural Narrator and the Intertextual (Sub)version of the Miltonic Command
… from the Genesis creation myth through John Milton's Paradise Lost and beyond, Eve has been patriarchally considered to be the bringer of Sin and Death into the world. In Paradise Lost Eve is depicted as deceiving Adam into the Fall by way of the Serpent. Paradise Lost creates a Miltonic command …
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Nietzsche's conceptual personae of freedom
… in the Deleuzo-Guattarian sense offers a way into some of Nietzsche’s most complex ideas. Freedom surely ranks among Nietzsche’s most multifaceted and teasingly elusive ideations. It has not, however, benefited from the intensive scholarship devoted to signature Nietzschean themes such as will …
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The Sacred Hoop: The Hero and Community in Selected Works of Mari Sandoz
… illustrated in her novels, biographies, and histories that true heroes try to build and maintain the sacred hoop of community, but their efforts are continually thwarted by the weaknesses in themselves and society.</p> <p>The study is organized around the three genres of biographies, histories, …
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Nietzsche and Comedy: Provocative Laughter Amidst a Tragic Philosophy
… view maintains that human beings are given over to certain limits that we cannot transcend. These include ourselves as finite beings, the recognition that noumenal knowledge is not possible and, because we are subject to the flux of existence, that life can be both painful and destructive. …
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The creation of 'a world after its own image': a genealogy of transparency
… as a discursive fact of modern society. It seeks to understand both why and how the concept has come to be dominant within global neoliberal capitalism. From governments and political parties, to businesses and non-profit organisations, diverse institutions across the globe are embracing …
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Challenging Fragmentation: Overcoming the Subject-Object Divide through the Integration of Art-Making and Material Culture Studies
This practice-led thesis explores ways in which to integrate art and material culture studies as a manifestation of philosophy’s process thread. In doing so, its goal is to generate a praxis which is able to come to holistic terms with the fragmenting dualism of subject-object binaries. By seizing …
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Health and great health: Nietzsche on overcoming sickness
My dissertation was motivated by a desire to not only gain clarity in Nietzsche’s manifold use of the notion of sickness, but also to better understand the ideal of health that runs through his writings. Given this goal, I begin by identifying the primary kinds of sickness that animate Nietzsche’s …
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Becoming Good Europeans? Globality, the EU and the Potential to Realize Nietzsche's Idea of Europe
… Europeanism’ and his related idea of Europe to show how the former disposition may be cultivated to achieve the latter—a reinvigorated culture on the continent. It does so by applying his vitalist politics and power ontology (will to power hypothesis and theory of decadence) to critique …