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Amor Fati In Jaco Van Dormael's Film, Mr. Nobody, Rebecca L. Smith
Amor Fati In Jaco Van Dormael's Film, Mr. Nobody, Rebecca L. Smith
Senior Theses and Projects
The argument in this thesis is how the philosophies of the German Frederich Nietzsche are portrayed throughout the Belgian director Jaco Van Dormael’s film Mr. Nobody (2009). Mr. Nobody is a film about every imaginable way one man’s life could unfold from every major and minor decision he makes. Nietzsche’s philosophy of Amor Fati, or love of fate, is portrayed by the film’s main character, Nemo Nobody (Jared Leto). Within the different quantum branches of Nemo’s life he portrays both the man of reason and the man of intuition; a topic central to Nietzsche’s philosophy. In the various timelines in …
Philosophy Of Sports: Understanding How Friedrich Nietzsche And Magic Johnson Can Work Together, Karl Sandrich
Philosophy Of Sports: Understanding How Friedrich Nietzsche And Magic Johnson Can Work Together, Karl Sandrich
Senior Theses and Projects
This thesis is an attempt to examine sports through the lens of philosophy with a particular focus on the multiple levels of sports experience. To break that sentence down, the philosophic part of the thesis is by not being comfortable with the easy answers when it comes to sports. So often when people think or talk about sports there is a wall of generally accepted answers and this is an attempt to hurdle that wall. The easy answers are more often than not simply the start of the questions. The multiple levels of sports refers to the fact that most …