... I would say the essence of Nietzsche's thought could survive in a number of different conventions. He does not just stand for science and freedom from...
"But at some time or other, in a more powerful time than this mouldy, self-doubting present, he must nonetheless come to us, the redeeming man of great love...
I have been reading obituaries of PW Botha. The Guardian one http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/0,,178776,00.html describes him as "one of the most evil men...
... I hope you are not suggesting Dawkins is Jesus to Nietzsche's John the Baptist. Or that smug Dawkins could even see the need for such redemption. Or are...
... the Baptist. Or that smug Dawkins could even see the need for such redemption. Or are you trying to emphasise the absoluteness of Nietzsche's atheism? -...
... Hm. Tell us how it does. Are you suggesting that Dawkins' evidently quite sincere parodying of scientism, his reductio ad absurdum of the crassest...
... I really don't see what is anachronistic about bringing up the last man in this context. Surely the last man ideal is presented as the consequence of...
... man in this context. Surely the last man ideal is presented as the consequence of scientific rationalism. - Interesting thesis touching on that here: ...
... I don't want to read all that. What is he saying that is relevant to our discussion? ... I don't follow at all. What has it to with Lamarck or Darwin for...
Dawkins’ whole commitment is to a an atheistic scientific enlightenment which is to form the foundation of all knowledge. Nietzsche might prefer scientific...
I am reading "Thus Spake Zarathustra" again and a passage struck me with the force of a blow to the stomach. How could someone in the late 19th century be so...
... enlightenment." ... In the passage Nietzsche appears to set a positive value upon superstition, as a mark of individuality. Dawkins, let it be remembered...
... superstition, as a mark of individuality. - "Appears" is a good way to parse it, but it still makes precious little sense. Superstition is no less...
... Best to read the whole passage. It doesn't seem to be online. He is valuing superstition as it manifests at the 'decadence' of he Roman Republic. ... It...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1941210,00.html There's a strong argument against them. A bit like support from Joe Stalin. Or Count Dracula. ...
(from TI) "Whispered to the conservatives. -- What was not known formerly, what is known, or might be known, today: a reversion, a return in any sense or...
... Actually it's not really the quote I was looking for. And why does he have to whisper, why can't he say it out loud (as of course he does)? He objects to...
One enters the world for a while as a visitor. One hopes to have fun in it, and wishes for it to continue in ways one cares about after one's personal demise. ...
By calling the Soviet Union the evil empire Reagan gave it a sort of devilish charm. Better to have called it the virtuous empire. There it was that wicked...
A lesson applicable to other times and places How respectable people become complicit:- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,2775-2442888,00.html By this...
... It is all very well rejecting inessentials, like his nineteenth century anthropology, but that is hardly the core of Nietzsche’s message. Rejecting...
Hello,everyone. I'm interested in the concept"intension" of Nietsche which influenced greatly Deluze and French philosophers. In which book of Nietzche the...
... I am not aware that Nietzsche had anything to say about this concept. As a logical concept it is what Frege called Sinn, or sense. Deleuze and Foucault...
