cid:007801c8b8f9$cb748e00$0100007f@Jubulex LEXIPROSE experiments in philosophy date July 2008 / issue # 7 The Voluptuary~~ What a fantastic 3 day weekend!...
Dear group, John has asked me to send my responses in the exchange we are having lately to the group. Comments welcome. DW ... argued." ... But what does that...
Just a few commetns and references for now. ... http://www.investigatingatheism.info/whoswhoeighteenth.html ... Kant was his starting point. Kant had already...
... We were speaking, it seems to me, roughly from within the context of a verificationist perspective, which states that any statement is meaningless unless...
... That is not my perspective. Whatever they are, however, metaphysical statements may appear to be arbitrary and undecidable, and need close examination. ......
... Pedantic point, worker ants are females.- == Hmm. I thought that was bees. Still, I will let the protestant-work ethic ant be a male, because most woman do...
... Ants too. Both hymenoptera. I note how Blake spoils a good saying with entomological ignorance:- "As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her...
... Why not call it Stirnerism then or Stirnerite modernism? All sorts of other people talk of modernism and they mean different things. You said that...
Speaking of Duchamp, I know that he is now rated higher than Picasso as a twentieth century artist. To you he is a Stirnerite modernist, but that is not quite...
... Duchamp would be the unifying element. As Andre Breton observed, Duchamp seemed to arrive at the critical point of various ideas before anyone else did....
... That is an interesting thought and encourages me to look into him. ... Which I would not pretend to have. But I don't think we are talking about strains of...
What it is and what it isn't When confronted with an idea like the universal will to power, people who know little of Nietzsche, may think they can easily...
President Andrew Jackson stated in reference to the bankers at the state of his administration "You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out,...
... state of his administration ... by the Eternal God, I will rout you out." ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson Following Jefferson, Jackson...
... and Currency Committee for more than 10 years, was the best posted man on these matters in America and was in a position to speak with authority of the...
... It's so easy to fall into overgeneralization, but my starting point would be the rise of the subjective sense both in the world at large and in artistic...
329 Leisure and Idleness. There is an Indian savagery, a savagery peculiar to the Indian blood, in the manner in which the Americans strive after gold: and the...
Where there is not an articulated idea of `power' in the mind, that does not mean that power may not be said to be willed, or even consciously willed. In...
"What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?" "Love of one man is a...
... I questioned whether we were talking about different strains of modernism. Is a radically antistirnerite sensibility something you or I would want to count...
... It doesn't have to be worth anything. It may form itself into a moralistic idea that manifests as a threat. To expose its basis in will to power may be to...
... "Happiness is an ... psychologists ... I'd never heard of him but here he is:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mih%C3%A1ly_Cs%C3%ADkszentmih%C3%A1lyi In his...
