What does "brechtian" mean?
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"A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, the German playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) or his plays or dramatic technique.    \n\nB. n. An admirer or follower of Brecht."
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Freedom \nThis comes from German (literal, modern-day translation, "Freiheit"), but is actually closer in derivation to the German word "Friede", which means "peace" and is a word of pre-Christian, Germanic origin (originally "Frith"). The archaic term was used to signify the period following the termination of a bloodfeud between two Germanic clans when the softer, feminine qualities of the god "Freda" or "Frita" held sway. To achieve such a peace, some consideration had to given up on the part of the clan whose member had committed the most recent wrong against another clan, such as a certain quantity of meat or animal hides. What was given up was called "Bot" (delivered good) or "Botschaft" (literally delivered shank (of meat), but currently is the modern German word for "message"). It is interesting to note that this is from where we get the English term "boat" (Apparently, as time went on, the term was used less to describe what was being delivered and more to describe the deliverer or means of delivery--Hence, the modern German words "Bote" (messenger) and "Boot" (boat--which can be visualized as a means of delivering something or someone)).
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Hmm, does someone have a politcal theory midterm coming up?\n\nKant was largely a predecessor to Marx/Engels and was critisizing the same social structures they work and their inevitable ends of ruin. \n\nMachiavelli on the other hand was an advocate of the totalitarian ideal. Force makes right, but the quite "The ends justifies the means.", in itself is not correct. Even Niccolo would not entirely agree with that. \n\nTheir deep philophies are much to deep to get into because they were largely addressing different periods in political history.  Machiavelli was witnessing Roman decline and revolution, while Kant was witnessing the rise of the industrial revolution and its impacts upon the masses. \n\nIs there a specific topic you were intrested in like free will? social revolution or something?
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I have seen it used, but cannot find it in any dictionary.  It seems to be used "as in a liberal sense" or using prudence in a poetic license context.
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It means 'A honour to those who died, a warning to those who live'\n\nIts from a monument in Dachau where the concentration camps used to be during the Holocaust.
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It does mean something like: "The only truth is the finality of death" or "True annihilation lies in Death".\n\nIt is also a phrase used in a type of Heavy Metal music, called "Death Metal", characterized by deep growls, loud bass, and screams.
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It gets its name from Doctor Pangloss in Voltaire's Candide.  His belief was that all things happen for the best and that we live in the best of possible worlds.  Voltaire himself plainly doesn't believe this and events in the book contrive to prove otherwise.
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I'm not entirely sure of the context of this qoute, but I would guess that it is telling a race of poeople who have been historically oppressed by others that they should work together and try to overthrow their oppressors/ achieve a certain goal because they can do anything when together and they are not inferior, even though they might have been told so by their oppressors.
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I believe that it means anarchy will thrive despite all efforts.  It's a fact of life.\n\nWhether or not this is true, I do not know.
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it means you are extremeley liberal (democrat).\n\nSome organizations belonging to the Far Left\nAnarchist Black Cross Federation \nAnti-Imperialist National Democratic Front (South Korea) \nCo-ed Revolutionary Anarchist Liberation Union (Poland) \nCommunist Party (Sweden)(formerly Communist Party Marxist-Leninists (the revolutionaries)) \nIndustrial Workers of the World \nInternational Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (Unity & Struggle) \nInternational Socialist Organization \nInternational Workers Association \nMaoist Internationalist Movement \nMelbourne Anarchist Communist Group \nNational Democratic Front (Philippines) \nOrganization for the Reconstruction of the Communist Party of Greece \nPeoples' Global Action \nRed and Anarchist Action Network \nRevolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) \nRevolutionary Internationalist Movement \nUnity List(Denmark) \nWorkers' Communist Party (Norway) \nWorkers Solidarity Movement(Ireland)
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In German, it means "goodbye"
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831):called it "volksgeist" Volks-people, Geist-spirit. (in german)   The shared collective thoughts and beliefs of a people or nation.\n\n      Also Zeitgeist- meaning spirit of time(the dominant principles of a given time period shared among the peoples)\n\n     I don't know if I explained it clearly but it is a very simple idea...just don't overthink it....there is more but it isn't neccesary to understand this...
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Is this a statement or a question?\n\nMarx, Karl \n \n \n1818—83, German social philosopher, the chief theorist of modern socialism and communism.\n\nEarly Life\n\nMarx's father, a lawyer, converted from Judaism to Lutheranism in 1824. Marx studied law at Bonn and Berlin, but became interested in philosophy and took a Ph.D. degree at Jena (1841). He early rejected the idealism of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and turned toward materialism, partly through the influence of Ludwig Feuerbach and Moses Hess.\n\nEarly Work\n\nIn 1842 he became editor of the Rheinische Zeitung, but his demands for radical reforms led to its suppression in 1843. He then went to Paris, where he began his lifelong association with Friedrich Engels. At this time Marx became a socialist. He devoured the works of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, the comte de Saint-Simon, and many others. Antagonized by the individualistic radicalism of Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Marx attacked him in The Poverty of Philosophy (1847, tr. 1910), an early attempt to systematize his own thought. In this period also he wrote, with Engels, The German Ideology (tr. 1933), which provided an exposition of his dialectical materialism. Breaking with the tradition of justifying social reform by appeal to natural rights, he invoked "inevitable" laws of history to predict the eventual triumph of the working class.\n\nLater Work and Life\n\nIn 1847 Marx joined the Communist League and with Engels wrote for it the famous Communist Manifesto (1848), which strikingly expressed his general view of the class struggle. The failure of the revolutions of 1848 convinced Marx of the need to stimulate the consciousness and solidarity of the working class through the founding of open revolutionary parties. Exiled from most continental centers, he settled permanently in London in 1849. He lived in poverty, made more bitter by his own chronic illness and the death of several of his children. At times he was able to earn funds as a correspondent for the New York Tribune, but he was continually dependent on Engels for financial aid. Nonetheless, he pursued research in the British Museum and continued to write steadily.\n\nIn 1864 Marx helped to found the International Workingmen's Association. Through this First International and through the work of Ferdinand Lassalle and others, Marx's ideas began to gain primacy in European socialist and radical thought. This primacy was greatly furthered with the publication of the first volume of Das Kapital (Vol. I, 1867, tr. 1886; Vol. II—III, ed. by Engels, 1885—94; tr. 1907—9). The manuscript for the fourth volume was edited by Karl Kautsky and published as Theorien über den Mehrwert (3 parts, 1905—10; tr. of 1st part, A History of Economic Theories, 1952). A monumental work, Das Kapital provided a thorough exposition of Marxism and became the foundation of international socialism.\n\nAs Marx's reputation spread, so too did public fear of him. He insisted on authoritarian sway within the International, and finally, after controversy with Mikhail Bakunin, virtually destroyed the International for fear of losing control over its direction. He remained the prophet of socialism and was often consulted by the various socialist party leaders. His role was frequently that of urging more hard-minded policies, further removed from bourgeois embellishments; The Gotha Program (1891, tr. 1922), a critique, illustrates this position. The complexity and vituperation of this polemic characterize much of Marx's prose. In his last years Marx's great intellectual vigor continued unabated. The importance of his dialectical method and of his theories goes far beyond their immense political influence; many scholars consider him a great economic theoretician and the founder of economic history and sociology.
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I guess in todays language it would mean, that the battles and angst that an artist has with the society that he lives in (which might codemn or dont appreciate his art) is like a spat btwn 2 lovers. You fight and argue but you always realize in the end that you need one another more than you know.
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It is a French word roughly translated as enjoyment.  Quite literally it means whatever 'gets you off'.  Transcendant Bliss.
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It's 'soi-disant'.  It's french, and basically translates to 'self-saying'.  It means so-called or self-styled.
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It is Latin which means " Out of many we are one ". Loosely translated. Regarding the people the many different nationalities of people that came to America legally to gain their freedom from tyranny and oppression.