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Philosophy

Nietzsche and the Ethics of Guilt

October 28, 2021

Nietzsche understood our inherent desire to not attach ourselves with evil or any of its connotations. When language uses the categories of ‘good’ and ‘evil’, it ties straight to guilt and blame, thus trapping and suppressing us. […]

A man thinking with an angel and a devil sitting on each side of his shoulder.
Philosophy

Nietzsche’s Language of Good and Evil

October 28, 2021

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. […]

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Philosophy

Friedrich Nietzsche: God Is Dead

October 27, 2021

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. […]

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Philosophy

Mark Twain and the Morality of Huckleberry Finn

October 5, 2021

Huck was wrought by his conscience believing that freeing his friend, Jim, was a crime. He is humane enough to sense that condemning people to chattel slavery cannot be right. And yet, his Victorian morality dictates that he do so. […]

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Philosophy

The Manichean Dualism of Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address

October 5, 2021

The most surprising element of Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address was the lack of blame game. He believed both the South and the North to be equally complicit when it came to the sin of slavery. He saw it as a theodicy question about the justness of God and saw the civil war as a theological punishment. […]

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Philosophy

Hegel and the Process of History

September 10, 2021

Hegel adopts a view of God or the World-Spirit as directly governing the forces of human history and in some ways coming to understand itself in human history. […]

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