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Where's The Happy State: A Comparative Literature Analyzing Freud and Rousseau.

Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 03:12:43
Category: / Social Sciences / Politics
Length: 6 pages (1732 words)
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We have always been led to believe that civilization is something favorable for humans to have over the "savage" and "inferior" species. However, before taking the greatness of civilization for granted, we should speculate upon the validity of this belief. After all, the very entity that teaches "obvious" fact to us is our civilized society! The two great thinkers, Freud and Nietzsche, question and contemplate the benefits that society imposes on us and conclude that …

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…theories well by heart, they have overcome the conditions of the dysfunction of civilization. ----------------------------------------------------- "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" Part V, Page Unknown Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents. Standard ed. New York: W.W. Nortan & Company, 1989. P. 69 Ibid. P. 81 Ibid. P. 84 Nietzsche, Friedrich. On The Genealogy of Morals Ecce Homo. Standard ed. New York: Vintage Books , 1967. P. 25 Ibid. P.33-34 Ibid P. 34 Freud, P. 95 Ibid. P.96 Ibid. P97 Nietzsche, P.45 Ibid. P. 45

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