In deze scriptie wordt betoogd dat Nietzsche niet zoals de gangbare lezing stelt het ressentiment volledig afwijst, daarentegen enkel de christelijk-ascetische en destructieve omgang met ressentiment. In hoofdstuk I. worden ...

Based on the evolutionary account that both the human species and other species are likewise products of the general mechanism of evolution by natural selection, one wonders what distinguishes the human species from others; ...

This thesis is an evaluation of Herbert Marcuse's intellectual framework from One-Dimensional Man- and in particular the concept of the 'Happy Consciousness' - in the light of 60 year of global developments. By using two ...

There is currently a great variety of sexual practices and a diversity of attitudes towards sexual morality in society. The issue of human sexuality, with special reference to homosexuality, remain unresolved and controversial ...

Ayn Rand (1905-1982) is romanschrijfster en filosofe. Ze wordt in Amerika op handen gedragen vanwege haar pleidooi voor het individualisme en omdat ze het morele fundament onder het kapitalisme wist te leggen. Tegelijkertijd ...

The late Heidegger and Bernard Stiegler both assert that contemporary technics poses a threat to human existence as well as being in general. The present paper asks, in the face of this threat, how am I to be in order to ...

In this paper, the author discusses Jürgen Habermas’s new thought experiment about the place of religion in the public sphere. The thought experiment is placed in the debate about the place of religion in the public ...

The prospect of genetic manipulation confronts us with fundamental questions. While many authors confront the ethical side of these questions, there is in a sense a prior ontological question that must be asked, which is ...

Although Hannah Arendt considers authority to have vanished from the modern world, her analysis in On Revolution shows she did not accept this disappearance. In her extensive analysis of authority in the American Revolution, ...

The philosophy of technology, according to Yuk Hui, should come to accept the existence of a plurality of technics. Technical activity, he says, is always shaped by cosmology. Hence, cosmologies divergent from the 'Western' ...