Despite his affirmation of the will-to-power,

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Question 1

Nietzsche indeed holds to the Platonist conception of objective moral values and objectivity in truth, despite his affirmation of the Will-to-Power, for behind Platonism lies Power.

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Question 2

"God" represents, for Nietzsche, the way in which past historical peoples coped with the absurdity and nihilism of existence, namely by revolting against time and its passing.

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Question 3

For Nietzsche, behind reason's search for truth lies the Will-to-Power and thus the revelation that humans are merely animals; reason's will to truth has thus destroyed itself and revealed itself for what it truly is: a farce.

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Question 5

Nietzsche's maxim "What does not kill me makes me stronger" leads to the nihilistic denial of life and resentful hatred towards a purported cause of suffering, as evidenced by Kelly Clarkson in her tune.

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Question 4

Slave morality, characterized by Nietzsche as the unconditional affirmation of life, fuels the resentment of the Übermench.

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Question 5

Although Foucault argues for a liberation of sex from power, he nevertheless holds to a strict naturalistic approach (based on natural law) regarding sexual mores and values.

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Question 6

Foucault and Nietzsche operate under the "Hermeneutics of Suspicion," that is, that there lies something deeper beind the merely apparant, which for both Nietzsche and Foucault was "power."

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Question 7

For Foucault, "sexuality" and "gender" are inventions of modernity due to the ficticious "suppressive hypothesis," which led to various discourses and categorizations; however, there is only, for Foucault, "the body and its pleasures."

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Question 8

Foucault argues in his "History of Sexuality" that the fundamental relation between sex and power lies in suppression, namely the suppression of sexual desires by those in power.

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Question 9

Foucault argues that scientific claims of naturalistic vs. unnaturalistic sexual desires remain oblivious to the fact that "what is" is by definition "natural," since it comes from nature; Foucault therefore argues that all desires are natural.

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