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They create a divine will to power within us, and give us a true understanding of the eternal promise of spring, or the eternal promise of life and understanding.
Plato believed that conquering and embracing life while recognize the inevitability of it makes up thought. Recognizing there is spring, and it will always return, is a major source of thought the thinker can reap, and the winter in his soul helps him resist perception and the real world around him. Winter commands the real thought to conquer obedience, and when the thinker obeys this command, he creates live, original thought, empty of perception and full of the awareness of true thought and cognition.
The formula becomes the living, human thinker, compared to last spring. He experiences the glory of springtime in the real world. Because he, like spring, obeys the authority of this live thought, he makes winter in his soul, in order to resist the reality...
Therefore, the thinker obeys last spring, to create live thought for the current spring, to suffer through the suffering of winter, to create an obedient but always thinking human. Thought becomes the sacred eternal spring inside the mind, and it happens because of will to power, respectful authority, and powerful compliance. Thought then, is always life getting better, overcoming obstacles, and creating itself anew. Many believe this philosophy of Plato's could be one of the grandest thoughts ever created by man.
To sum it up, thought is nothing more than the resurgence of spring, born out of winter, where it disappeared, and thinking is the tormented resistance to the real world, while acknowledging the boundless possibilities of knowledge. Nietzsche summed it up when he said, "I love him to lives to know, and wants' to know so that the overman may live some day. And thus he wants to go under."
However, Nietzsche is keen to observe that the fact that there are varying standards of morality or different moralities does not mean that there is no form of biding morality. If this is the case therefore, then it is logical to argue that there are as well varying kinds of 'binding' originating from the varying moralities, for instance, the Christian binding cannot be deemed the same as the binding
All the aspects of society are based on the models of the Forms, or the ideals of perfection. In other words, if we translate this belief into practical terms, Plato's theory really means that we should strive for the highest possible ideals in life. Although Plato had a great influence on Western thought, there are many thinkers and philosophers who disagree with the basic premises, and dualism, of this theory. For
Nietzsche and Nihilism "Nihilism" was the term used by Friederich Nietzsche to describe what he considered the devaluation of the highest values posited by the ascetic ideal. The age in which he lived was viewed by the German philosopher as one of passive nihilism, which he defined as the unawareness of the fact that the religious and philosophical absolutes had dissolved in the emergence of the 19th century Positivism. Since traditional
But this sense of a death of nationalism, or one's personal belief is different than Nietzsche's statement because no ideology has kind of hold Christianity did upon the world when Nietzsche wrote in 19th century Europe. Response 2 Do you think we reached a point where we no longer need God? On one hand, it is possible to see humanity's ability to engage in scientific discovery as proof of the glory of
But even many devout believers in America today state that we all worship the same God, and thus participate in the same 'truth' regardless of our affiliation. Even atheists validate the feeling of believers and state that although science is factually true, the human mind and faith has its own truth that can emotionally and psychologically move mountains. In other words, there are different kinds of truths -- truths
and, through the scientific study of modern, cognitive science, the idea that 'I' am doing the thinking in a way that is separate from my body and that this can be rationally deducted, simply by thinking and without scientific experimentation would be confounded. However, those using empiricism as their main philosophical view of the world have also been able to twist the empiricism to use science's supposed rationalism and objectivity