... profound' ... garde. ... Did I say that the 'something else' has to be incarnated by 'one man'? I appears to me you might be saying that Nietzsche is...
... those who yet stand in the fine Fabian tradition of geo-political analysis and advocacy personified by old Beatrice and Sidney Webb - believers in...
... I see that I must still labor under ignorance of just what the fuck PP means. I presume that abandoning me to ongoing suspense here constitutes punishment...
I said: There is something dubious about the whole notion that one man *could* incarnate or entertain the "most profound perspective", something arbitrarily...
... PP means. I presume that abandoning me to ongoing suspense here constitutes punishment for having missed the 'class', when this was covered.< Nope -...
... man'?" ... Nor implicitly either. ... on ... confesses ... Golden mean, perhaps. Like the judge who aimed to keep a hapy medium between justice on the one...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oh, and lest the crucial question for the PP be lost amidst all the bitching and moaning: How does one arrange the...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [From the Archives:] Paul, Yet another of your admirably well-spoken entreaties to Mike that he, at long last, get on with it. I...
... That of course depends a great deal upon how well 'justice' is defined. I think we discussed this a bit the first time round. There are Hobbesian...
... rights"/rightly-understood-interest in such society cannot be formulated in theory or realized in fact.<< ... defined. I think we discussed this a bit the...
... characterisation of Dubya as a "Christian moron" who gives sincere assent to the moralistic propaganda he puts out. Democratically minded Americans take...
A few of the members of OPN are regular readers of Ha'aretzdaily.com and the UK Guardian.com. I'm just pasting this in because it relates to posts I have made...
<I'm no Kant scholar, so I doubt I'm a Kantian. Although I'm not <sufficiently informed to be sure what that might be. I do accept his <long-winded formulation...
... The United Nations and many contemporary luminaries are now at work on defining 'human rights' concretely, as well as the basic rules of the international...
... enforcement of those yet-to-be-defined "human rights" and "dignity"?<< ... on defining 'human rights' concretely, as well as the basic rules of the...
me: The United Nations and many contemporary luminaries are now at work on defining 'human rights' concretely, as well as the basic rules of the international...
... I see that your training in legal epistemology did not take. ... the inept hands of a clique of paleolithic bozos ultra-nationalist wackos and MIC whores,...
... to ... This is where a bit of serious philosophical training could help you. To the philosophically untutored, Kant's ideas about the thing in itself may...
"This is where a bit of serious philosophical training could help you. To the philosophically untutored, Kant's ideas about the thing in itself may indeed seem...
"...but you have to let the fly out of the fly bottle." One of my impieties is a certain vexation with the existence of some creatures, e.g. fleas & flies &...
... in a ... far ... they're ... they're ... to ... fan.) ... confine ... admiringly ... So it's ok with you if the nice vegan birds eat up peoples' crops and ...
- If ... Of course it doesn't have to be Wittgenstein. I take it Hegel would do, or many an anti-metaphysician. Just to show you that there are other points of...
... is ... loathed ... of ... Nietzsche ... I am not at all sure, following 'The Case of Wagner' that there can really be Nietzschean music at all. I do...
Tool's going under: frontman or overman? "46 & 2," brings the Nietzsche-Tool puzzle altogether. The song is about genetic mutation and evolution. Maynard...
"Of course it doesn't have to be Wittgenstein. I take it Hegel would do, or many an anti-metaphysician. Just to show you that there are other points of view,...
"...An illusion can never be destroyed directly, and only by indirect means can it be radically removed... There is nothing that requires such gentle handling...
There is an instinct for rank, which more than anything else is already the sign of a high rank; there is a delight in the nuances of reverence which leads one...
Can someone clarify this for me... In the second essay of Genealogy of Moral, FN intrduces the concept of the bad conscience. Nietzsche seems to think fairly...
... "philosopher ... What did I say about religion? And I said 'many a' not 'any old'. ... subsist ... able ... John. You are welcome. But I don't see that...
