The character Antigone from the play Antigone best represents Stage 6th ,Universal Principles, of Kohlberg’s Stage Of Moral Development because she believes that individuals should have natural rights. In the play Antigone has a sister called Ismene and two brothers, Polynesis and Eteocles. Polynesis and Eteocles killed each other for the throne. Since Polynesis attacked Eteocles first Creon decided to leave Polynesis dead body in the street, so Antigone believed that Creon’s rule was unfair and it was against her natural rights so she decided to break the rule and bury her brother’s body.
In Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche first opens up by claiming his dissatisfaction of previous philosopher’s attempts of describing morality. Nietzsche claims that the idea of morality of being of no value is simply wrong; as people with higher morality are often worth more than people with low morality. He also goes on the explain the people of the lowest morality are priests- as they have created the most hate in the world. He then goes to say “Priests make everything more dangerous, not just medicaments and healing arts but pride, revenge, acumen, debauchery, love, lust for power, virtue, sickness” (16). Since different religions have different Gods who have different stances and moral on life, these beliefs cause a division between humans.
Victor Frankenstein: Morality and The Pursuit of Knowledge Victor Frankenstein has many original characteristics and themes to his life, but the two that describe him best are Morality and The Pursuit of Knowledge. Victor is a higher class boy who lives in the country that decides he wants to go to college at the university of Ingolstadt in Germany to study Chemistry. When he is off at college, he has a motive to bring back life to the dead. He works on frogs, dogs, and than the biggest project of them all, A human.
Like Freud, Marx strongly believed that religion was created as a form of security. Nietzsche viewed religion as something humans resort to in times of desperation. They turn to religion when they are seeking meaning in their own life. Nietzsche believed that religion made
Ludwig Wittgenstein, the 20th century analytic philosopher and ascetic, once said that the honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He looks as though he were walking on nothing but air and his support is the slenderest imaginable. Yet it really is possible to walk on it. The question of religion and its significance is not only a societal and communal one but, at the same time, a deeply moral and individual one. It involves dealing with the nature of life in its totality and death, all in the purview of God.
One's Morality can be determined the actions that they choose to do, this complication can happen. Victor, the creator is a smart man for knowing right and wrong because he's known what it means. In the creature's brain is just developing when victor was creating. The creature is known as Frankenstein as to learn from listening and observing one's surroundings. Frankenstein has to learn right from wrong because frankenstein is more a visionary character.
Society has, and always will be, a never ending cycle of change. Society always has a way of pressuring people into things and of controlling lives. Religion has been a big part in almost every society to ever exist. It also finds ways to make people second guess themselves and can throw common logic out the window at times. In this essay I plan shedding some light on the subject of how religion can control society, and vice versa through my eyes and the eyes of three authors.
It claims that this religion instills guilt for the feelings and aspirations that are inherent to humanity while promoting a moral system that consistently goes against the instincts and nature of mankind. In seeking moral excellence and “the ideals of humanity,” Nietzsche asserts that mankind loses its instinctive desire to grow and become powerful and, therefore, becomes corrupt (Nietzsche 6). To simplify, corruption can be defined as straying away from innate feelings that encourage growth and yearn for power. Nietzsche uses the concept of transvaluation of values to reiterate his argument that everything that Christianity suggested is good is actually evil and vice versa. Nietzsche sees Christianity as nihilistic, stressing that the values and traditions leave people yearning for redemption that they will never be able to achieve on their own.
Nietzsche recognized how the country began to act differently, and how they started to forget what they were founded upon. People didn't practice like they use too and he predicted a future society with more atheism than Christianity. He didn't make this predicament because it was his religious outlook but because it seemed to be nothing but a slippery slope from then on. If people if that society were already forgetting, or neglecting their traditional practices, future people would not be aware or custom to what once was...
In the book “Beyond Good and Evil” Nietzsche mentions that true philosophers are the “bad conscience of their age”, by this he means that philosophers are called to a task to show their inequality of time. The task he tries to show what philosophers are, is the task of enhancing a society that deals with time. Nietzsche mentions in section 212 of the book “So far all these extraordinary patrons of humanity who are called philosophers have found their task, their harsh, unwanted, undeniable task lay in being the bad conscience of their age.” (Nietzsche,106). What Nietzsche is trying to say in this quote is that philosophers find their tasks by looking back at the morals they have used in their past to predict their future.
In “The Parable of the Madman” by Friedrich Nietzsche, the author creates a text about how religion dictates a lot of what people do. He presents the “madman” who sporadically runs into a marketplace asking where God is. While he is laughed at, he exclaims that all the people including himself are “murderers” and has killed God. The madman goes on a whole rant about religious traditions such as “Do we not need to light lanterns in the morning?” and everything done to show gratuity of God.
Kierkegaard’s idea is sometimes hard to pin down, maybe because of the fact he had written with the use of symbolic pseudonyms who conveyed differing contrasting points of view and mainly because the dialectic procedure he included is inherently vital and ever-changing. Kierkegaard argued that involvement in faith is ought to be in the tremor of existential fear and unsteadiness. There are many generalizations and overwhelming judgments made about Nietzsche and his notions. For me, there is only one way to understand Nietzsche, what I do is to read each paragraph and saying and dictum attentively and cautiously and arrive at my own ending after seeing how his words apply to my own life. In Human all too human, the works of Nietzsche such
Nietzsche was a German Philosopher who wrote a book called Twilight of the Idols. I will be taking some of his main points from his story and giving my standpoint on them. In my paper I will be explaining Nietzsche's morality as an anti-nature and his four great errors of human nature. The four great errors include confusing cause and consequence, false causality, imaginary causes, and free will. Nietzsche believed that philosophy should be about jumping from one extreme to another extreme and that it should make you angry and ask questions.
Somehow there is metaphysical powers or power pulling all the strings behind the world. Nietzsche started to question religion at the young age of 13, later to completely reject it altogether. The common belief at that time was that god was the origin of our morality; god determined what was good and what was bad or evil. Nietzsche rejected this idea of our morality. With this in mind, Nietzsche questions whether the common belief that god is the origin of morality has helped or hindered our development as a society.
Moral nihilism is often contradicted by many other philosophical branches. Most philosophical branches deal with morals and values, and moral nihilism would be thought to deal with morals as well based on the name. However, is one of the few philosophical positions that state that morals are meaningless. Many philosophers believe that moral values are encoded in our DNA, and one is born with natural values. Morals are what makes one human, they are the basis of a healthy and strong society.
