GVPT 241 Lecture 12: 4 .doc
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For thur: sections 231, 236, 237 rewrite of paper due friday in discussion. Reading the handbook next week paper 2 postponed to tue. Beginning socrates, apology, on tue: god is dead. We have killed him: one of his most famous sayings. 2. if you think about thisit is terrifying: you are totally free and everything is meaningless except that to which you give meaning, god is no longer at the center of most people"s lives. It is a brilliant and terrifying freedom: conforming becomes god society becomes god (alford"s theory, god no longer has weight and significance, what does it mean to be a child again. 2. that takes a purity of spirit that knows that it itself is alone if you can accept all this you can become a child again. The will to power: act of defiance against all that is weak and lazy in oneself.