escartes'and Spinoza's best works were published posthumously. ie they croaked before they were printed. Of course, I do noit know whether they were under the ...
litism. Here in the States, though, that's a bad word, and we've since birth had pounded into our little democratic heads the notion that we are all equal, and...
s this a Nietzche question? It is in the sense that it is a philosophical question. You can use Nietzsche to support your answers, but there is no point in ...
he fact that not all people are equal is so obvious don't you think? Why is it then that no one seems willing to accept it? "No matter how good you are at ...
bout that place in Iowa. <br>Given that American democracy is a bad thing, what could be done to destroy it? Alternatively, not wanting to throw out the baby...
have no illuminating answers to your questions, save for an explanation of "Crib Death, Iowa". That was taken from a Michael O'Donoghue quote (he was a writer...
don't often resort to the infamous Triple Dog Dare in a philosophical confrontation, for the kinds of reasons you point out...<br><br>It can be a risky ploy,...
n a personal level, Z, I agree with you. As a human I can make whatever lifestyle choices, I want: friends, career, leisure, etc.<br><br>But, on a global ...
read an interesting article by Robin Roth, "Nietzsche's Use of Atheism" which questions the largely accepted interpretation of Nietzsche as an atheist. ...
galitarianism on a global scale leads to some nasty stuff, too. Also America may be a democracy internally, but its global power is hardly democratic. What are...
he "triple dog dare" is the highest level of dare that a sub-teenage American can use to challenge his or her peers.<br><br>Dare Heirarchy:<br>Triple Dog...
xcellent point. <br><br>Many Americans resist the way our government wields its power on a global scale. We understand that most of these issues are economic...
think Sysiphus is right in saying that heidegger is not hard to understand. i made a point of reading "an introduction to metaphysics" following this debate,...
ell, I guess I have a couple responses, initially.<br><br>(1) On the one hand, it is pretty easy to understand a *summary* of just about any Philosopher's...
s immensely dense and not by any stretch of the imagination an 'easy read' (and my undergrad and grad degrees are in philosophy, so I'm not just talking out of...
ume in his Natural History of Religion, treats monotheism as morally retrograde, compared to polytheism, and polytheism as effectively equivalent to atheism. ...
eoria IL is the quintessential medium-sized middle-sized town. It is the home of Caterpiller tractors, incidentally.<br><br>The idea that people are created...
t amazes me the amount of ink that has been spilled over this particular topic...to say the least it has made me feel important on this page for the first ...
y apologies to Bill...<br>I was going to let you continue to make a complete ass of yourself on this board, but my friend Clint thought it would save you face...
gt;The idea that people are created equal refers to a person's legal rights before the law, not their abilities. The founding fathers meant that all are to be ...
hat is the greatest thing you can experience? It is the hour of the great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness grows loathsome to you, and your ...
he earlier posts discuss N'scientific stand against religious dogmatism. I think N's concept of science was just a little more complicated than that. we tend...
eville,<br>Since you "triple dog dared" me...thank God I can prove my mettle now...I give you the request you made...<br><br>Heidegger's "Being & Time" as the...
n reply, i repost my response to a highly-prescient 18-year old from the other N club. <br><br>>>how do you see the idea of the eternal return linked ...
think what philosophy2001 is saying is that to truly follow in the spirt of Nietzsche, as opposed to just plain following, is to critique not only those things...
hile i'm not sure i would have phrased things the way philosophy2001 put it, and yes, the dig against Amer philosophers is unfortunate, belying his own ...
his just seems like such a simplistic interpretation of N. <br><br>it's kind of strange because i think i saw a posting of yours wherein you stated you had a...
