Essays about: "Nietzsche"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 25 essays containing the word Nietzsche.

  1. 11. The Human Non-Human Boundary in 'Dune'
 – An Ontological Reading through a Comparative Nietzschean and Transhuman Framework

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Kiti Misha; [2020]
    Keywords : Frank Herbert; Dune; Science Fiction; Nietzsche; Overhuman; Transhumanism; Posthuman; Transhumanism; Human; Nonhuman;

    Abstract : In Frank Herbert’s Dune Saga, we find a transhumanist and Nietzschean argument about the evolution of humans achieved as a result of the triggering effect of the Butlerian Jihad against thinking machines. I claim that the metamorphoses of the selected characters reflect the central tenants of the transformation of Nietzsche’s overhuman, or transhumanism’s posthuman. READ MORE

  3. 12. Black Metal, Ecology and Contemporary Nihilism

    University essay from Kungl. Konsthögskolan

    Author : Mary Furniss; [2020]
    Keywords : Black Metal Theory; Ecology; Nihilism; Bataille; Nietzsche; Doomer; Chaos Magick; Chaos Comic; Painting;

    Abstract : Abstract 1: Master Thesis - Investigating the relationship between the aesthetics of Black Metal and its ecological and nihilistic implications with contemporary painting, comics and Chaos Magick spiritual practice. Abstract 2: Documentation of solo exhibition titled Zurbaráns' Dream. READ MORE

  4. 13. The Core-based Worldview model

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Edwin Oldfield; [2019]
    Keywords : Worldview; ethics; model; worldview-model; worldview model; worldview; method of worldviews; Religion; Christianity; Hinduism; Islam; Philosophy; Kierkegaard; Nietzsche; Philosophy of Religion; Edwin; Oldfield; Worldview differentiation; Purusartha; Belief; Representationism; Interpretationism; Dispositonalism; Virtue; Världsbild; Livsåskådning; Tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap; Religionsfilosofi; etik; filosofi; Edwin; Oldfield; Kierkegaard; Nietzsche; Purusartha; Världsbildsdifferentiering; Tro; Representationism; Interpretationism; Dispositionalism; Dygd;

    Abstract : This essay starts at the proposition that there is not yet a satisfying way to differentiate between different worldviews. Although many attempts have been made, they fail in ways that are difficult to pinpoint. READ MORE

  5. 14. (UNTITLED, DATE UNKNOWN) or the potential of the once forgotten as seen by Nietzsche and Warburg

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

    Author : Kirsti Taylor Bye; [2018-08-15]
    Keywords : Nietzsche; Warburg;

    Abstract : This essay attempts to explore the notion of memory and forgetfulness in relation to the collection at the Trondheim Museum of Art. Memory can in this case be understood as the information about the collection, what is known about the objects and how they came into the possession of the museum, forgetfulness being the instances where this information is missing, often without the museum being conscious about it. READ MORE

  6. 15. Knowledge, truth and the life-affirming ideal in Nietzsche’s perspectivism

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofi

    Author : Olsson Joakim; [2018]
    Keywords : knowledge; truth; Friedrich Nietzsche; perspectivism; perspective; life-affirming ideal; post-truth; coherentism; epistemology;

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