Twilight Of The Idols

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Next in theology, the philosophy of god, Nietzsche is famous for saying that God is dead. Nietzsche uses the title Twilight of the Idols to suggest that the time of decline has the hollow idols that the world believes in. He believes that the previous ideas of God and religion are not true and that people need to get rid of them. In my view, Nietzsche was anti-god because he believed that Church was the anti-life. He believed that “the practice of the Church is hostile to life” (Twilight, Maxims and Arrows, 52). He is against God because his theory was that “by saying God sees into the heart’ it denies the deepest and the highest desires of life and takes God for the enemy of life…The saint in whom God takes pleasure is the ideal castrate…Life …show more content…

Mind and body have distinct natures, in Plato’s case, he embodies this concept in his work “Phaedo.” For Plato, the body associates with us in all sorts of ways such as, evils, inconvenience and distractions which keep us from gaining knowledge. He believes, “For, if pure knowledge is impossible while the body is with us, one of two things must follow, either it cannot be acquired at all or only when we are dead; for then the soul will be by itself apart from the body, but not before” (Phaedo, 66e-67a). He often says that the body’s imprisonment of the soul remains trapped as we live, but desires as immaterialists are to be freed from that which is materialistic. I believe when the soul is apart from death, it makes its way back. Plato is basically saying that the soul exists as the immaterial substance while the body is the material substance. Carrying on, the mind and body’s action attribute to Descartes of the thinking mind and the non-thinking body interacts by means of efficient causation which means that the mind causes events in the body. In the Meditations of First Philosophy, Descartes thought of metaphysics, regarding the value of human nature, he says, “…my essence consists solely in the fact that I am a thinking thing. It is true that I may have . . . a body that is very closely joined to me. But nevertheless, on the one hand I have a clear and distinct idea of myself, in so far as I am simply a thinking, non-extended thing; and on the other hand I have a distinct idea of body, in so far as this is simply an extended, non-thinking thing. And accordingly, it is certain that I am really distinct from my body and can exist without it” (Descartes, 54). This also has the existence of the two separate substances, the body and soul but instead of separation, they operate more close together like having a connection. A person in nature is

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