Written in response to a book on the origins of morality by his erstwhile friend Paul Rée, the three essays comprising The Genealogy of Morals — all three advancing the critique of Christian morality set forth in Beyond Good and Evil — are among Nietzsche's most sustained and cohesive work.In the first essay — starting from a linguistic analysis of words such as «good,» «bad,» and «evil» — Ni ...
What is morally permissible, and what is morally obligatory? These questions form the core of a vast amount of philosophical reasoning. In his Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant developed a basis for the answers.In this landmark work, the German philosopher asks what sort of maxim might function as a guide to appropriate action under a given set of circumstances. By universalizing such a maxim, would morally permi ...
Two major works by one of history's best known and most widely read and studied philosophers. In Gorgias, an exploration of the proposition that it is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, Socrates debates with an amoral young sophist and assets that it is preferable to endure someone else's bad conduct than to be the source of bad behavior.Timaeus relates a creation myth that concludes with the birth of humanity, in which Socrates ...
After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman with the 1886 publication of Beyond Good and Evil. Conventional morality is a sign of slavery, Nietzsche maintains, and the superman goes beyond good and evil in action, thought, and creation. Nietzsche especially targets what he calls a «slave morality» that fosters herdlike quiescence and stigmatizes the ...
This anthology focuses on the ethical issues surrounding information control in the broadest sense. Anglo-American institutions of intellectual property protect and restrict access to vast amounts of information. Ideas and expressions captured in music, movies, paintings, processes of manufacture, human genetic information, and the like are protected domestically and globally.The ethical issues and tensions surrounding free speech and informatio ...
Questo libro A? dedicato ai lettori piA? giovani e ai neofiti, e spiega i fondamenti dell'Islam in un formato a domande e risposte. Vengono affrontate tutte le dottrine e le pratiche dell'Islam, riguardanti temi quali il concetto di Dio, i Profeti, I Libri rivelati, gli Angeli, il Diavolo, la Vita dopo la Morte ecc. Il formato a domande e risposte rende il libro piA? interessante e facile da comprendere. ...
The Joy of Giving is perfect book for mums and toddlers for easy reading. <br><br>The joy of Giving happens when baby Emily is attending the NTUC Upicnic for babies and they are celebrating the National Day watching fireworks for the first time. <br><br>The unselfishness in Baby led her to give her toy to an older brother. Read more to find out the details. Brimming with bright colours, playful illustrations and photograp ...
Most people agree that the world should be just but that it simply isn't. Rogues flourish, the good die young and many feel they have not received their due. Unlike the rest of us, the anonymous hero of Even does not just complain about it, he embarks on a voyage of self-discovery, searching both for vengeance for the past and justice for the future in a personal attempt to bring balance to an unbalanced world. The result is a quest that ...
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Friedrich Nietzsche:<br><br>Table Of Contents<br><br>THE ANTICHRIST <br><br>BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL <br><br>*I: The Case Of Wagner* <br><br>HOMER AND CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY. <br><br>ON THE FUTURE OF OUR <br><br>Thoughts Out Of Season – Part One <br><br>THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA ...
