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Nietzsche
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Sociology
Undergraduate 3
04/08/2013

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Apollonianism
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The critical rational: i.e. a ration, objective harmonious, balanced, and measured orientation
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Ascete
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One who practices a lifestyle based on self-discipline and self-denial.
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Asceticism
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A lifestyle based on self-discipline and self-denile
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Bad Conscience
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Fear of one's own sinful nature, leading to hatred of one's self and the desire for self punishment
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Big Science
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organized by major educational, economic, or political entities.
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The crucified
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Christ
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Dionysian
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The creative-passionate; i.e. a sensuous, frenzied, orgiastic, unbounded, and non-rational orientation.
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Evil
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For Nietzsche, the activity that is not bound by her morality.
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Genealogy of morality
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Historical reconstruction of the emergence of moral tendencies in human civilization.
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Herd morality
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Similar to Pareto's "Class 2 residues." The instinct that supposedly binds us together and makes us fear what would happen if we left the herd.
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Master (or noble) morality
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The morality of those who do not shrink from evil.
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Nihilism
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The devaluation of all high values, including the belief in absolute principles, absolute moral rules, absolute aesthetic standards and the like.
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Philology
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The study of the history of language and literature, together with the analysis of meaning and syntax.
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Postmodernism
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A cultural complex that celebrates rootlessness, timelessness, contingency, chance, and flexibility
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Post modernity
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The period after modernity-sometimes regarded as the period after 1968
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Poststructuralism
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An intellectual movement that began in the 1930s and attained maturity i n1960s. An attack on modern ways of thinking rather than a crituique of the existing political or socicial orders. The rejection of the idea that human intellect can self-reflectively discern the foundations of such order.
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Reich
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The German nation(no more than an idea before 1871)
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Ressentiment
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French word meant to convey the idea of injured merit.
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Slave morality
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The morality of the herd. A value system designed to constrain, weaken, and homogenize the individual
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Ubermensch
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Extraordinary, sovereign individual who has mastered all the impulses that would otherwise make one weak.
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Vernunft
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Critical, self-reflective understanding.
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The will
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Blind, largely unconscious, non-rational, nonintellectual drive that represents barely understood life energies.
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