Michel Foucault (1926 – 1984) is considered by many the greatest thinker of the 20th century. His most famous work focuses on two things: sexuality and its construction (his concern with this issue was always at hand; he was openly, albeit quietly, homosexual ), which he discusses in three vo...

Nietzsche and His Philosophies At approximately ten o'clock a.m. on October 15, 1844, not only a human being was born, but also a foundation was laid for future revolutions in the ways of philosophy and interpretation of human thought. Nietzsche was a German philosopher of the late 19th ce...

In his process of drawing the distinction between a thing and its meaning, Friedrich Nietzsche approaches the long established concept of morality, among numerous other concepts, strictly with initial doubt. In doing so, he scrutinizes and, eventually, discredits them. In order to do that, he begins...

Existentialism is the title of the set of philosophical ideals that emphasizes the existence of the human being, the lack of meaning and purpose in life, and the solitude of human existence. Existentialism maintains existence precedes essence: this implies that the human being has no essence, no es...

Nietzsche's unpublished essay "On Truth and Lies in an Unmoral Sense" was regarded by some scholars as a keystone in his thought. He rejects the idea of universal constants, and claims that what we call "truth" is only "a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms. His view is not...

The Divine Command Theory states that God is the ultimate source ofmorality and the abandonment or lack of belief in Him results in, or islargely liked to, the many social problems in the world (Schlick, Jr 2003).It says that something is good because God wills it. His commands andinstructions...

Traditionally, existentialism has been viewed as mostly twentieth-centuryphilosophical movement, and transcendentalism a nineteenth-century one. Not onlyis Henry David Thoreau's Walden Pond an existentialist work, but by examining thesimilarities and interrelations between existentialist thought and...

Nietzsche "God Is Dead" Out of all the things I could have chosen to write about, for some reason "Twilight of the Idol's' caught my eye It was kind of a catchy title, and it was the last thing that Nietzsche wrote that had any merit before he went ...