Tuesday, November 13, 2007

While looking back over Nietzsche for my paper, I found a connection to Marx concerning the distinction of animals and humans. Marx believed that "man can be distinguished from the animal by consciousness, religion, or anything else you please" (107). Nietzsche didn't have quite as broad a perspective on our differences from the animals as Marx though. Nietzsche states that "the human soul in a higher sense acquire depth and become evil- and these are the two basic repects in which man has hitherto been superior to other beasts" (33). They both agree somewhat if you consider the consciousness and religion that Marx mentions as the depth that Nietzsche talks of, and you could say that Marx agrees with Nietzsche since Nietzsche's becoming evil would fall under Marx's "anything else you please," but this view of Marx's seems a bit too broad of a distinguishment of animals from humans.

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