Defining ‘woman’ faces a few problems as there is little agreement or an objective form of femininity that can accurately described. Being a female is not enough to define woman for though a person may have female genitalia and function, they do not consider themselves to be women, “One is not born but becomes a …
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On Truth and Lies
Language cannot accurately represent Nature for language is nothing more than associations of phenomena with arbitrary symbols arranged in arbitrary patterns, what Nietzsche (aptly) considers illusions. In creating these illusions, Nietzsche finds us using multiple metaphors and mistaking the final product to be something real. As he puts it, “To begin with, a nerve stimulus …
Four Great Errors- Reaction
The first of the errors Nietzsche has observed is to deceive ourselves and reverse causality. By reversing causality, we mistake the cause for the effect and the effect for the cause. Here is one of his examples: “The newspaper reader says: this party destroys itself by making such a mistake. My higher politics says: a …
Sisyphus: Paragon of Intoxication
As punishment for his defiance of the gods and passions for life, Sisyphus is sentenced to the underworld, forced to roll a stone uphill only to watch it come back down. Condemned to endless, futile toiling, serves as Camus’ model to illustrate a rebellious happiness in spite of the absurd life. Camus begins by making …
The Unmoved Movie 