I don't think people would actually have to *believe* in the eternal recurrence for it to be a valuable means to breeding and selection, as Nietzche seems to...
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sauwelios
Sep 7, 2010 7:46 pm
Well, I said "it---or at least the *possibility* of it---must be believed in". In the notebooks, Nietzsche likens the possibility to the possibility of eternal...
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sauwelios
Sep 8, 2010 4:10 pm
But if those who do *not* believe in the possibility, but do find the idea attractive, have a better chance to prevail than those who do not believe in the...
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sauwelios
Sep 9, 2010 4:06 pm
We might say Nietzsche describes the world as *prescription* and nothing besides. And to those who would object, "but then that 'description', too, is really a...
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Ian
ianmathwiz7
Sep 24, 2010 11:25 pm
By the way, it is not necessarily true that there is nothingness in the middle and the outside of curved, even circular, space (and, by Minkowski's extension,...
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sauwelios
Sep 25, 2010 2:52 am
I agree, but it *is* necessarily true if space/time is all there is (which is the case according to Nietzsche's theory of the eternal recurrence)....
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Ian
ianmathwiz7
Sep 26, 2010 1:37 am
"[I]t *is* necessarily true if space/time is all there is." Says who? According to Einstein's theory of General Relativity (which is based heavily on...
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sauwelios
Sep 26, 2010 1:52 am
I don't think you've thought through the infinity/nothingness problem. Thus you say: "According to Einstein's theory of General Relativity (which is based...
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ianmathwiz7
Oct 3, 2010 6:12 pm
"I don't think you've thought through the infinity/nothingness problem." Actually, I have thought this through, and I knew what, in essence, your argument was....
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sauwelios
Oct 3, 2010 6:47 pm
Well, as you have not grounded any of your assertions, there is nothing for me to go into. I don't know what you mean by "common sense". The...
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sauwelios
Oct 3, 2010 9:30 pm
Here is a thought I had some years ago. If the space of the universe is a 4D hypersphere, it is unthinkable that it be enclosed by 4D hypernothingness. It must...
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ianmathwiz7
Oct 3, 2010 11:30 pm
"Well, as you have not grounded any of your assertions, there is nothing for me to go into." Do the words "Riemannian geometry" ring a bell here? "I don't know...
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sauwelios
Oct 4, 2010 1:46 am
... I did some reading on it. That didn't help to ground your assertions. ... Of course. ... Below are syllogisms. In each case, "a" is the first premise, "b"...
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ianmathwiz7
Oct 4, 2010 5:19 am
Thank you for taking the time to write those syllogisms. Some problems with it are: 1 (a): "To think is to form or have in the mind" I agree with this...
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sauwelios
Oct 4, 2010 7:42 am
... Well, for one thing, I'd say a concept *is* a thing. I don't mean that all things can be formed or had in the mind. ... Thank you. I would indeed not mind...
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ianmathwiz7
Oct 4, 2010 10:26 pm
"Well, for one thing, I'd say a concept *is* a thing. I don't mean that all things can be formed or had in the mind." Well, we can dispute that. Ultimately,...
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sauwelios
Oct 5, 2010 11:32 am
... And by saying that a concept is a thing, I did not mean to imply that it had 'substance'. So it's not a metaphysical, but a definitional argument. I define...
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Ian
ianmathwiz7
Aug 26, 2011 10:55 pm
Um, hi. It's been quite a while since the last post of this discussion. I have no excuse; I just completely forgot about it. That, of course, isn't...
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sauwelios
Aug 27, 2011 1:30 am
Dear Ian, I think I can counter your objection to syllogism 6 very easily. You say: "Nothing about being enclosed by something unthinkable implies that the...
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osvit000
Oct 28, 2011 8:02 pm
Sauwelios complained about his failed rule as the master of the nietzsche-pyramid. He probably thought that a belief in hierarchy is sufficient to attract...
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sauwelios
Dec 14, 2011 2:35 am
Dear Members, I've created a new group about Nietzsche's Übermensch: https://www.facebook.com/groups/336960912985736/ ...
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sauwelios
Apr 30, 2012 6:45 pm
I will try to explain my insight by the hand of the high point, the thirty-fifth paragraph, of one of Leo Strauss's last writings, his "Note on the Plan of...
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sauwelios
Jun 24, 2012 8:25 pm
As a Lampertian Nietzschean, and at some level perhaps even rather a Straussian Nietzschean, I know something of Nietzsche's esotericism. Still, I'm impressed...
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sauwelios
Jun 26, 2012 3:30 am
Before I continue, first a note on the translation. The translation is from Project Gutenberg, and I've made a few corrections to it already because it isn't...
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sauwelios
Jul 1, 2012 11:48 pm
There is a fear that pervades woman's life: the fear of being raped, murdered, and/or tortured by man. And the context in which Nietzsche coins the phrase "the...
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sauwelios
Jul 2, 2012 7:25 pm
When, at the very end of my second post in this thread, I spoke of "adoring [woman] for her sincere passion for passion, and blessing her for the silliness of...
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einsamkeitslehre
einsamkeitsl...
May 24, 2013 10:21 pm
The thought path towards value creation that I have found most compelling is Heidegger's characterization of what values are for Nietzsche. "When Nietzsche...
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sauwelios
May 25, 2013 12:11 am
Your quote is actually from chapter 10 of Part One of Volume Four (of the Krell translation). Anyway, Lampert writes: "The complementary man 'is the first who...
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einsamkeitslehre
einsamkeitsl...
May 25, 2013 2:38 am
Thanks for the correction. I'll look into Laurence Lampert's works....
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sauwelios
May 25, 2013 3:40 am
Here's an interview with him, in which he also says how he stands vis-à-vis Heidegger: http://www.nietzschecircle.com/interview.html...
