Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Arche, Herd Mentality, Oceanic Feeling
16 Jan 2013
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Take the pain and hardship of life as a stimulant. Wrote a ton of great stuff during his tenor. And then he went crazy and had a mental breakdown was incapacitated until he died. For him the big deal was enlightenment: left a huge gap in morality and values for people. Romanticism: philosophy that there is something out there bigger than us. Apollo is the desire for something we can never attain: takes fleeting appearances that freeze life, brings about stasis, ex. quitting smoking i"m going to completely avoid all temptations. Nietzsche values the human life with all of it"s values and pains. Invent yourself as a work of art: it"s wanting all of the troubling pains of life, think of the agony and pain and such that goes into making art. Be sceptical to will to power that was all stuff published that he didn"t publish.
