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This is a 6 page paper discussing Freud and Nietzsche and rational and irrational thought in civilization. Freud and Nietzsche had similar thoughts in regards to the formations of civilizations. Freud believed that humans tended to form societies because of their need for the bonds of love with other humans and the need to fulfill their aggressive instinct. The only problem was that human instincts within societies are suppressed by limitations and regulations which leads to human irrational thought and unhappiness. Nietzsche had a similar theory in that he thought that the laws in society were made by the weak to protect themselves from the strong and if humans were denied their natural place in the caste system and were forced to act against their human will or nature, then they too would be victims of unhappiness.
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for the bonds of love with other humans and the need to fulfill their aggressive instinct. The only problem was that human instincts within societies are suppressed by limitations and
regulations which leads to human irrational thought and unhappiness. Nietzsche had a similar theory in that he thought that the laws in society were made by the weak to protect
themselves from the strong and if humans were denied their natural place in the caste system and were forced to act against their human will or nature, then they too
would be victims of unhappiness. There are two different theories of what democracy and civilization must be like if there is a viable
form of government within societies. Today, most critics believe that human are preference-expressing beings who pay little attention to details. The only irrationality these humans seem to exhibit is in
their failure to conform to the rules detailed in rational choice theory. The other theory which originated in the ancient Greek and visualized in their tragedies showed humans knew that
through tragedy it was possible to make decisions in the world which were not entirely rational or which rational decisions sometimes resulted in tragedy and which rationality itself could somehow
lead to irrational ends (Lear, 1995). For Freud who used psychoanalysis to try and account for human irrationality it was determined that irrationality in humans was not merely a failure
to make proper choices but sometimes irrationality was an unintelligent interference which overwhelms reason and sometimes this method is by madness (Lear, 1995). Human irrationality and the democratic ideal are
difficult concepts for most critics to combine and if the source of human irrationality lies within the human rather than outside of it then psychoanalysis is this attempt to make
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