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Durant
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- 1Pessimistic poetsByron in England, De Musset in France, Heine in Germany, Leopardi in Italy, Pushkin and Lermontof in Russia
- 2Pessimistic composersSchubert, Schumann, Chopin, and even the later Beethoven (a pessimist trying to convince himself that he is an optimist);
- 3Profoundly pessimistic philosopherArthur Schopenhauer (The World as Will and Idea 1818, published 1844). He lived 1788-1860
- 4Jeremy Bentham1747-1832
- 5Two major philosophers, one is a Germanized Italian (GI) , the other an Italianized German (IG)Benedetto Croce 1866-1952 (GI)
Nietzsche 1844-1900 (IG) - 6Philosophy’s Five fields of study & discourse1. Logic
2 Aesthetics
3. Ethics
4.politics
5. Metaphysics - 7Definition of logicthe study of the ideal method in thought and research: observation and introspection, deduction and induction, hypothesis and experiment, analysis and synthesis—such are the forms of human activity which logic tries to understand and guide; it is a dull study for most of us, and yet the great events in the history of thought are the improvements people have made in their methods of thinking and research.
- 8Definition of AestheticsBeauty
- 9Definition of EthicsDoing right
- 10Definition of politicsForms of government
- 11Definition of metaphysicsThe only field of philosophy which is not an attempt to coordinate the real in the light of the ideal. the study of the “ultimate reality” of all things: of the real and final nature of “matter” (ontology), of “mind” (philosophical psychology), and of the interrelation of “mind” and “matter” in the processes of perception and knowledge (epistemology). It is a dark realm, illumined only by the light we bring, but full of treasures for the soul. Here Nature hides her secret essence, and puzzles us with a hundred clues.
- 12Voltaire on God not preventing evilEither God can prevent evil and he will not; or he wishes to prevent it and he cannot. He was not satisfied with Spinoza’s answer that good and evil are human terms, inapplicable to the universe, and that our tragedies are trivial things in the perspective of eternity.
- 13That Great Anthology of WoeThe World as Will & Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer in 1819
- 14Group of pessimistic poetsByron in England, De Musset in France, Heine in Germany, Leopardi in Italy, Pushkin and Lermontof in Russia;
- 15Group of pessimistic composersSchubert, Schumann, Chopin, and even the later Beethoven (a pessimist trying to convince himself that he is an optimist);
- 16Frederick Nietzschein this battle we call life, what we need is not goodness but strength, not humility but pride, not altruism but resolute intelligence; that equality and democracy are against the grain of selection and survival; that not masses but geniuses are the goal of evolution; that not “justice” but power is the arbiter of all differences and all destinies.
- 17The source of Superman?Siegel wrote "The Reign of the Superman" in 1932. Inspired by the spread of the term "superman" in popular culture of their time and thus indirectly inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's idea of a super-human (the Übermensch), it featured a meek man transformed into a powerful villain bent on dominating the world. It’s from
- 18If one doesn’t believe in God, Nietzche felt that they naturally fall into what abyss?The abyss between moral Nihilism (lack of belief in moral values) and existential nihilism (lack of belief in any purpose of life). Losing purpose or meaning of life. But for some it’s an opportunity to become ubermenche (supermen), creating our own moral meanings.
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