Thomas Jefferson did not believe in different parties. What he actually wanted was that the Federalists should be eliminated and everyone should become a Jeffersonian. He worked actively towards establishing republican principles and obliterating the Federalists. […]
The Big Bang theory suggests that the universe came into existence at one specific point in time. It also indicates that the universe subsequently went through significant expansion after its birth. […]
Timothy Dwight believed there could be no national virtue without national religion. As president of Yale College, he preached and shared his thoughts with the students, leading to an outbreak of religious revival. […]
At a canine festival in Nepal, Hindus paid tribute to their dogs with gifts. Pups were offered special baths and garlands by their owners, from civilians to the police force. In Hinduism, dogs are messengers for the god of death. […]
Hua Guofeng helped to bring an end to some of the worst radical excesses of the Maoist era. He introduced educational, cultural and economic policies under the program known as the “Four Modernizations”. […]
‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ posits a world where apes are given an evolutionary push by aliens who place monoliths all around the galaxy for them to find. It makes them journey through wormholes and the aim is to become a ‘star child’, an evolved human. […]
Zarathustra in Nietzsche’s ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’ is convinced that philosophical enlightenment and evolving to become superman or Übermensch would improve a person dramatically. […]
Nietzsche believed that the language we’ve developed has trapped us in a certain unhealthy position, and the primary surface manifestation of the problem is our continued captivity to the language of good and evil. […]
Friedrich Nietzsche’s most famous utterance is “God is Dead”. He felt that the repercussions of this were huge, but that it had not been fully comprehended by people yet. […]
Übermensch, as Nietzsche saw it, was a man not bound by conventional morality. It wasn’t necessarily a male and wasn’t genetically superior either. It was an individual who could, through his will power, master his own self. […]
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