Disney concsiously used to aim its films at the mental and emotional mentality of a thirteen year old girl. Now 13 year old American girls are conceived to be...
"That which creates a morality, a code of laws: the profound instinct that only automatism makes<br>possible perfection in life and creation." Will to Power, ...
Yes...But one needs a structure in order to create a life. Anarchy and chaos follow poor structure - one must have a morality, one must have ground under one's...
Do you think that thus spoke zarathustra is a good book of Nietzsches' to read first? I haven't read any of his other things yet, and I found zara. to be ...
Breathing is usually automatic. It is generally good that not stealing should be so, it is a pain to have to make choices all the time. It was not so much ...
I quite agree that Zarathustra is obscure. Most of his other books are more easily accessible. Try Beyond Good and Evil, Genealogy of Morals, Birth of Tragedy,...
It think some people tend to read Nietzsche as if he is espousing his immoralism as something that should be embraced by all of mankind, like most moralists...
"Even by virtue of my descent, I am granted an eye beyond all merely local, merely nationally conditioned perspectives; it is not difficult for me to be a ...
As long as we are suggesting portals to Nietzsche, I suggest either Twilight of the Idols or the Antichrist. They are short and powerful. Zarathrustra is ...
Yes, you are an old bearded guy!!!<br><br>I think Zarathustra is a good place to start with Nietzsche, though. And then go to Beyond Good and Evil... They are...
"How is it that every execution offends us more than a murder? It is the coldness of the judges, the painful preparations, the understanding that a man is here...
Guilt. - Although the most clear-sighted judges of witches and even the witches themselves were convinced the witches were guilty of witchcraft, no guilt in...
I like to post this for people new to Nietzsche. <br><br><br>Erin from: "Club Nietzsche"----Did the philosophy of Nietzsche have any influence on your thought?...
Is it true that the only thing Mcveigh said for months was that he had some number tatttoed inside his arsehole? Does this suggest that he is mad, or was it...
Nietzsche attacks Christianity precisely for its inhumaneness. The crippling of the strong to which it aspires he sees as the most vicious form of cruelty....
>>>For guilt is not being punished, even if there were guilt; guilt lies in the educators, the parents, the environment, in us, no in the murderer--I...
I get muddled up with your American Blooms. Is there a Harold or did I mean Howard? Allan's "Closing of the American Mind" struck me as largely common sense...
The impulse behind the European Union is more political than economic. "Economics is politics in disguise" (J Enoch Powell). Much of this political impulse is...
>>>so how can there be individual responsibility?<<<<br><br>But then again, we must live as if there is individual responsibility, and people...
"...a strong wind is Zarathustra for all who are low; and this counsel he gives to all his enemies and all who spit and spew: 'beware of spitting against the...
"Faith moves no mountains but puts mountains where there are none..." The Antichrist 51.<br><br>One of my favorite alltime quotes from one of my favorite...
'Yet among the initiates (teleioi) we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age who are doomed to pass away. But...
"It has to be understood that for the careful reader there is a<br> deeper level in the reading of material such as this. Much of these<br> writings have a ...
i'll get right onto some further reading as soon as i've finished boning up on Aristotle and Plato for an upcoming exam... *scrabbles at eyes*<br>laura...
thanks for coming to my defense (and Nietzsche's as well) there john. <br><br>As I said in my post, savoie, my writings on my site are somewhat amateurish and...
-> ALL <- Christians? Fact is, there are spiritual as well as intellectual "Christians". Some who believe that Christ was the messiah and other who...
well I would clarify that Beth, and say that I generally mean "Christians involved in organized religion" when I say "Christians" because those are the only ...
