'm coming to appreciate Fritz's philosophy more and more. I find his philosophy refreshing in these days when so many people are claiming special rights...
thought you might be interested in the club because you had said you were interested in Nietzsche and existentialism in one of your posts in A100 Philosophy....
ndeed, Nietzsche, and existentialism, are a welcome relief in an age of blame. That is also the appeal of Ayn Rand to many. People are tired of hearing excuses...
s I'm sure you're aware, Fritz has left us with some great lines -- particularly in "Thus Spoke Zarathustra". I was wondering if anyone had some favorite...
ou're right that that's often misunderstood. Nietzsche meant by it that scientific truths upset religious dogmas, and therefore religion must be done away...
cientific facts often advocates the removal of the suit of refuse we so often cover ourselves with, this is what the dogmatic don't like, they want their ...
cientific fact often advocates the removal of the suit of refuse we so often cover ourselves with, this is what the dogmatic don't like, they want their ...
ell...<br>im sure i could say >it was all the product of a chemical imbalance< thats what the doctors say, but they are wrong, im the maker of my...
eople are many times hesitant to present their full opinion to someone my age because "i wouldn't understand"<br>i do find it sometimes difficult to hold...
ave you read Bertrand Russell's "Why I Am Not a Christian"? I highly recommend it. Also, as a sceptic I must recommend Peter Unger's book "Ignorance". Both are...
read bertrand russels "ten philosophical mistakes" and found it to be largely uninsightful<br>the only reason i recognize my christian influence is for the way...
must admit I haven't read "Ten philosophical mistakes". I recommend Russell's "Why I Am Not a Christian" if only for the clarity of his argument against ...
don't know patricash's history, though he did offer some background, but it might help to realize that many people discover philosophy at a young age.<br><br>I...
have often been upset that i was not introduced by my parents to modes of thinking suited to my improvement, in fact, it seemed that i was introduced only to ...
as anyone heard or read about fractal geometry?<br>its quite intruiging, these massive structures built of tiny shapes, all exactly alike but each one a bit ...
ell, first off, thanks for inviting me to join the club. My philosophical interests are somewhat peripheral to Nietzshe, but I find his refusal to cowtow to ...
ost commonly the eternal recurrence is interpreted as a cosmological hypothesis. It holds that everything that has already happened in the universe, and ...
think that people believe creation myths because they were taught from birth to do so, and the masses never really give the whole thing much thought. Let's...
he work of Foucault & Gramsci & others, (even Hegel though I bet he wouldn't admit it) tells us that we are interpolated into belief systems by freaks of ...
