EN 3000 Lecture Notes - Apollonian And Dionysian, Public Reason, Arthur Schopenhauer
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Lecture 6 critique of metaphysics i & ii: nietzsche & derrida oct 20. He believes that eventually the division between public and private reason will. Agrees that there is a division but he believes that people"s freedom is their right: for him, the state is an embodiment of the idea and the political realm. Everything is about an abstract/pure thought human knowledge is at the center of everything. Born on october 15th, 1844 in prussian saxony. His father died in 1849 and he was brought up in a feminine and pious society of his mother, his sister, a grandmother and two aunts. ". Became a university professor before finishing his doctorate, but negative reactions to his first published work soon saw him disillusioned with the academic world, which he left in 1879. Was sick most of his life with various illnesses; spent most of his life between.
