F2F Class Notes (Nicholas)
Grammar
His mother has quitted with his father – His mother left his father
His father’s died – His father died
She really hate – She really hated
His mother always want to kill him – His mother always wanted to kill him = His mother always tortured/abused him
Vocabulary
Schopenhauer – 叔本华
The World as Will and Representation
The Will To Survive – All life is suffering
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Will to Power
extreme – extremist – fringe
e.g. He’s too extreme.
e.g. He is an extremist. His thoughts are on the fringe.
e.g. He’s a fringe thinker.
his thinking is refreshing
meta-physical – beyond, above, over or before the “physical” universe
e.g. So metaphysical philosophies or ideas try and figure out where our physical reality comes from — the nature of the universe.
traumatic – trauma – 创伤
e.g. Schopenhauer had many traumatic experiences as a boy.
Nazi – 纳粹
contracted – he caught a disease
e.g. Nietzsche contracted syphillis from brothels.
acquire – get
e.g. I want to acquire power or new skills.
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