Nietzsche's Theory Of Nihilism

The Second Great Awakening’s Impact on Abolitionism in the North The Second Great Awakening during the late 18th and 19th centuries sparked many reform movements in the United States. The new enlightenment age fostered scientific thought that often challenged traditional Christian practices. Principles of “Deism” and “Unitarianism” were religious philosophies that focused on free will, reason, and science.

Friedrich Nietzsche was German philosopher who was born in Röcken, Germany. His father, Carl Ludwig Nietzsche was a Lutheran pastor which is quite interesting given his stance on religion throughout his philosophical works. In his early education, Nietzsche was heavily influenced by the Greeks and this influence can be traced throughout his writings. He is regarded as one of the most controversial thinkers in Western Philosophy because of his extremely provocative ideas. In Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche attempts to find the origins of good and evil.

This work of his was received with both criticism and intrigue. Calvin’s ideas were very radical, but he sought to back each of them up with what he believed was the ultimate authority of the Scripture. Calvin combats the idea that the church gives Scripture its authority because he believes that the Bible offers “as clear evidence of its truth, as white and black things do of their color, or sweet and bitter things of their taste” (31). He was constantly searching for ways to prove the consistency of the Bible, so he could further establish how authoritative it was. Calvin and Luther did not agree on the sacraments or the use of the law, but both were very influential theological figures of the Protestant Reformation and they both claimed that Scripture, not the church, was the true

During the Middle Ages while the Roman Catholic Church was in control, literature was focused around religion, as seen in a line from Everyman, stating “For ye shall hear, how our Heaven-King calleth Everyman to a general reckoning…” (Document B) This line is referring to God and the judgement of whether a person was to go to heaven or hell. Another piece of literature by William Shakespeare praises man in several ways, writing that man is “admirable… like an angel… in apprehension how like a god!” (Document B)

When encountered early in the book, the implication of this religious imagery is not fully apparent. However, once viewed in the context of the later Christian allusions found in A Clockwork Orange, it becomes clear that this is the proclamation of Burgess’ intent in this novel. Burgess views humanity as an organic thing, full of great potential to please God, and he sees the implication of conditioning, specifically, or more generally anything that would sap the essential ability of humans to choose, as a detriment to God’s

In this sense, the task of questioning the values accepted by his time was one of the main aspects of Nietzsche’s philosophy - and we see a reflection of this in DS as he moves against German culture. He conceived this as an indispensable task: as Newmark puts it, Nietzsche '[…] tirelessly pointed out that the question of values is first and foremost precisely that, a genuine question. Any given system of values […] has to be critically examined and interrogated before it can reasonably be accepted, maintained, or altered. ' 1 What must be noticed though, is how this question is asked not out of curiosity or of an excess of critical spirit: Nietzsche traces a close connection between the interest in values and the well-being and flourishing of human beings.

Having true freedom would suggest the ability to develop independently as an individual, yet it becomes evident that in the societies of Brave New World and the Great Gatsby, the existence of social structure prevents true freedom from ever existing.

Luther the German Patriot and Founding Father Martin Luther is the “founding father” of Christianity, he started the Protestant Reformation. He was motivated by his fear of God and going to hell. Becoming a monk and giving up his legal carrier led him to his own enlightenment by reading the Book of Romans in the Bible. While he was trying to find his own salvation, he strongly disagreed with the corruption of the Catholic church. He realized that he can justify his own faith so as others.

Luther is questioning not only the sales of indulgences but also why is the Pope using the money of the believers rather than his own money to build the church of St.Peters. The ninety-five theses were written in a humble and theoretical tone rather than a reproachful tone. His intentions were not to create chaos but to provoke thinking and to spread religion as God intended. In fact, in his ninety-five theses Luther reassures the believers he is not trying to accuse or punish the church by stating, “God remits guilt to no one whom He does not, at the same time, humble

In Edward Tylor’s monumental proto-anthropology (1871), “animism” is defined as “a belief in souls or spirits” and is used as a synonym of “religion”. Tylor had considered labelling his theory “spiritualism”, but that was already strongly associated with a particular religious movement. (It might be significant that Spiritualism was gaining popularity in the late nineteenth century, contrary to the decline of religion that Tylor anticipated.) The term animism, however, carried associations with the “souls” and “spirits” that Tylor saw as central, definitive matters of religious belief in all religions. It had been previously used by Georg Stahl (1708) in a failed attempt to define the difference between living bodies and dead matter as the