I'm lost on your question - that is - "shed further light on how it is that sensations can turn into problems." Did I say anything like that or by some...
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tom
devogney
Mar 3, 2010 4:21 pm
Jim, I have several times in the past quoted Alfred Korzybski in a book he wrote in the 1920s saying of the willingness so often expressed by the German...
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Jim
jimstuart51
Mar 3, 2010 8:44 pm
Wil, I find a tension between Nietzsche's idea of the `free spirit' who creates his life as a work of art and your take on Nietzsche's free spirit as the pawn...
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Mary
josephson45r
Mar 3, 2010 9:25 pm
Jim, I am somehow comforted by Alone's polemic and Tom's questions to you, because it seems you have no grasp of Nietzsche. You might do well to read the...
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Jim
jimstuart51
Mar 4, 2010 12:53 am
Mary, You write: "Jim, I am somehow comforted by Alone's polemic and Tom's questions to you, because it seems you have no grasp of Nietzsche. You might do well...
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hb3g@...
hb3g@ymail.com
Mar 4, 2010 4:16 am
Jim: I have to admit, going back and reading again, passage number 344 in The Gay Science, that Nietzsche does, indeed, characterize unconditional will to...
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Jim
jimstuart51
Mar 4, 2010 6:02 am
Hb3g, Yes, you make your point strongly and clearly. It is a shame that Nietzsche cannot be here to answer you himself! Perhaps he would say something like...
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Mary
josephson45r
Mar 4, 2010 3:39 pm
Regarding science, Nietzsche seemed more concerned with the valuation of truth and belief in Truth. He worried that theoretical science would merely replace...
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Mary
josephson45r
Mar 4, 2010 4:23 pm
One of FN's footnote from OtGoM reads: "All the sciences from now on have to do the preparatory work for the future task of the philosopher, understanding that...
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Mary
josephson45r
Mar 4, 2010 5:02 pm
Nietzsche's absolute value is reevaluation. However, regarding affirmation of life, he makes it quite clear that one can only affirm their own life....
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hb3g@...
hb3g@ymail.com
Mar 4, 2010 7:07 pm
Bravo! The extended quote from Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals really puts the issue right on the table. I am pretty clear, now, that it was a mistake for me...
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Herman
a_zygote
Mar 4, 2010 10:08 pm
HI Hb3g, ... <...> ... The good old Greeks stipulated that x=x and founded their math on it. (They also started of by insisting that all quantities could be ...
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William
bhvwd
Mar 5, 2010 6:26 am
... Unknow and unknowable. The Bobsey twins joust for insects. Who hires crud like you? Oh, did I use the "C" word. Mary did a wonder job of handling the FN...
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Herman
a_zygote
Mar 5, 2010 8:47 am
Hi all, Worshiping FN is the antithesis of anything he ever wrote. Yet, he is worshiped. But in reality, the logical consummation of all that he wrote is him...
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Jim
jimstuart51
Mar 5, 2010 2:10 pm
Hi Polly, You raise a number of separate issues here, which I will respond to separately. Polly: Worshiping FN is the antithesis of anything he ever wrote....
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tom
devogney
Mar 5, 2010 2:20 pm
Herman, You say Emil Cioran was despicable to Nietszche, but I read that Emil was born 1911, and Nietszsche died in 1900.How can this be? As for men being a...
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tom
devogney
Mar 5, 2010 2:38 pm
Jim, You write Certainly, I would not want to live on for many years in such a vegetive state. I would prefer to be put to death if such a collapse occurred,...
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eupraxis@...
wsindarius
Mar 5, 2010 2:46 pm
Emil Cioran was an honest fascist, which makes of his honesty a sham. But there are a few here who really ought to love him. It seems that fascism doesn't have...
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Mary
josephson45r
Mar 5, 2010 4:26 pm
Polly, despite a similar bitterness toward women reflected in your question, Nietzsche's work appeals to me for several reasons, not the least of which is...
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Gordon LeVasseur
zenosarrow...
Mar 5, 2010 5:03 pm
The conversation on this list seems exegetical lately. Does anyone discuss the choices we make, as individuals, in light of the radical freedom existentialism...
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Jim
jimstuart51
Mar 5, 2010 9:03 pm
Hi Alone, You write: "FN is a hard read but once done the die is cast. As I told the hapless Jim, he is in the face of a man much like Mao, a man like...
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William
bhvwd
Mar 5, 2010 9:45 pm
... Now that is a reasonable question that could be answered without reference to Hagel. Now some of the imposters here will howl but you asked me as an...
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Herman
a_zygote
Mar 5, 2010 10:41 pm
Hi Jim, ... Just so you know, I didn't for a moment believe that you were one who worshiped at FN's altar. ... We differ here. Incessantly flinging dung at the...
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Herman
a_zygote
Mar 5, 2010 11:41 pm
Hi Tom, ... Sorry, I wasn't very clear. What I meant was that Cioran and Nietzsche were equally despicable in their philosophies, which amounted to affirming...
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Jim
jimstuart51
Mar 5, 2010 11:42 pm
Hi Polly, I don't recognise your negative portrayal of Nietzsche. You write of FN that he was "Incessantly flinging dung at the world" and that "That FN...
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Herman
a_zygote
Mar 5, 2010 11:48 pm
Hi Jim, ... So, did Nietszche wish for an eternal recurrence of his "insanity"; and being a sickly useless burden to his sisters? Polly...
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tom
devogney
Mar 6, 2010 3:34 am
Herman, I know at least one of his sisters got all the play she could out of her relation to FN. Hitler came to celebrate FN's birthday every year, and FN's...
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William
bhvwd
Mar 6, 2010 4:48 am
I do not do it that way. Wil and Jim want it that way and we disagree. I , of course want to disrobe them , even capture them in the web of their falsehoods....
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William
bhvwd
Mar 6, 2010 5:15 am
Tommorw is what you fear. Indeed, the unknown. Wise of you follower, not war quality but enough to get your diploma. So now you are in control of the worlds...
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William
bhvwd
Mar 6, 2010 6:24 am
The Senate will not accomplishs the will of the people. The people have guns, who will they shoot them at . I like and support Sen. Harken and reveal a cold...
