Nz Essays
A.J. Thomas
21. The “Four Pillars of the Medieval World” are: 1.) The Universe possessed an intrinsic purpose or telos- overturned by the Descartes’ and the sciences. Instead, the universe operates mechanically: atoms act and react like gears of a clock. 2.) Mankind had a divine origin created by God, which was overturned by Darwin and the Theory of Evolution through natural selection. Man is now an animal, and like all animals, evolved out of nature. 3.) The existence of external forces of good and evil, and 4.) The Christian worldview was the only way to organize a flourishing society.
23. According to Nietzsche, Socrates was the origin for slave morality. He mentions that Socrates is ugly and this is the reason it entered the world. Socrates was resentful and jealous of everyone and everything he sees around him because he’s ugly. The Ancient Greeks thought being ugly was a sign that you had something wrong on the inside or in the soul. Nietzsche says that one chooses dialectics only when he has no other chance, about Socrates.
24. When Nietzsche says our thoughts, actions, morality and consciousness are epi-phenomenal, he means that our consciousness, Will, and Reason do not cause anything. Instead, unconscious things cause them. For example, H2O is Hydrogen combined with oxygen. Hydrogen and oxygen are both flammable when alone, but when combined create something that puts out fire. It creates a new property when put together. The effect is wetness. Water is conscious and the hydrogen and oxygen are unconscious. We pay attention to the result, not what makes it up. For Nietzsche, our actions and moralities derive from our unconscious type-facts in the same way wetness derives from hydrogen and oxygen.
21. The “Four Pillars of the Medieval World” are: 1.) The Universe possessed an intrinsic purpose or telos- overturned by the Descartes’ and the sciences. Instead, the universe operates mechanically: atoms act and react like gears of a clock. 2.) Mankind had a divine origin created by God, which was overturned by Darwin and the Theory of Evolution through natural selection. Man is now an animal, and like all animals, evolved out of nature. 3.) The existence of external forces of good and evil, and 4.) The Christian worldview was the only way to organize a flourishing society.
23. According to Nietzsche, Socrates was the origin for slave morality. He mentions that Socrates is ugly and this is the reason it entered the world. Socrates was resentful and jealous of everyone and everything he sees around him because he’s ugly. The Ancient Greeks thought being ugly was a sign that you had something wrong on the inside or in the soul. Nietzsche says that one chooses dialectics only when he has no other chance, about Socrates.
24. When Nietzsche says our thoughts, actions, morality and consciousness are epi-phenomenal, he means that our consciousness, Will, and Reason do not cause anything. Instead, unconscious things cause them. For example, H2O is Hydrogen combined with oxygen. Hydrogen and oxygen are both flammable when alone, but when combined create something that puts out fire. It creates a new property when put together. The effect is wetness. Water is conscious and the hydrogen and oxygen are unconscious. We pay attention to the result, not what makes it up. For Nietzsche, our actions and moralities derive from our unconscious type-facts in the same way wetness derives from hydrogen and oxygen.