Nietzsche's unpublished essay "On Truth and Lies in an Unmoral Sense" was regarded by some scholars as a keystone in his thought. He rejects the idea of universal constants, and claims that what we call "truth" is only "a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms. His view is not...

In this paper I am supposed to choose an existential or nihilist thinker and apply their thoughts to the 20th century problems that we identified at the beginning of class. I'm not going to do this. What I'm going to write about is one of, if not the biggest, problem mankind has ever...

When questioning the issue of our existence one must go to the basic question of "If we exist, then who created us?" Many religious and spiritual people would have a very simple answer: God. So this leads the questioning philosopher to ask how do we know that God exists? This is a question that ...