... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell I see that Mamet's tribute has already been added. Here's some Sowell:- "7) What some portray as "authentic...
Nietzsche has much to say about the mentality of the Priest. Here is a quote from Dryden, which I think has some application:- "Tis sufficient to say,...
What sort of trade are you suggesting here, do you mean trade off, compromise? If we are to compromise with morality of the weak what then of transvaluation? ...
... than what either side originally intended. ... It means giving up something, namely money, so we have less. What would be the equivalent of the money I...
... among superior men. I am not saying I have found a peer group for myself, and I do consider myself above average. ... This is from GM III 18:- For we...
... Is this an example of Nietzsche changing his mind? Or are these modern oligarchs of the spirit subject to a sort of weakness? If so what does it say about...
for mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, tho' everything is alter'd. == I agree with that. Wherever you look, in all societies there are...
... than what either side originally intended. ... It means giving up something, namely money, so we have less. What would be the equivalent of the money I...
... same social structures, with minor variations. It is a matter of getting at the inner logic that projects those patterns unto the world. ... I would like...
Is this an example of Nietzsche changing his mind? Or are these modern oligarchs of the spirit subject to a sort of weakness? If so what does it say about...
I would like to apply this thought to Nietzsche's concept of the ascetic priest. Assent to doctrines like those of political correctness may be seen as...
... groups that it does for artistic or intellectual groups? A philosopher generally is not "predatory," nor technically a "warrior." ... I think his concepts...
... Might that sometimes be your soul? ... conversation is a wide idea the includes arguments, poems, art, etc. There are many ways to commune ideas.== You...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/09/us/politics/09obama.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin "Mr. Obama seemed interested in thinkers like Friedrich...
But if Nietzsche has made a discovery on a par with e.g. Darwin, it is hardly on to replace that discovery with some idea of your own. Learn from him and...
... propos of you quoting Will to Power, I am reading some parts out of book 3; I put him down for months at a time, and am always surprised when I pick him...
"Mr. Obama seemed interested in thinkers like Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud and Jean-Paul Sartre, whom he studied in a political thought class in his...
... Might that sometimes be your soul? ==A metaphor. nobody and nothing can gain your soul. Only you can corrupt it. In exchange for what? I have no idea. ... ...
... http://www.mith.demon.co.uk/darniet.htm Nietzsche's will to power may be taken in an equivalent metaphorical sense. He was using Darwin to express a...
... corrupt it. In exchange for what? I have no idea. The soul itself is only a metaphor, presumably. The idea of selling your soul to the Devil is a good old...
... I took another look at it, too. Thickers got very bitchy with you at a certain point in the discussion. Then it deteriorated. Not sure why he did. Another...
A thoughtful piece. It raises questions that pose a strong challenge to any species of Nietzschean world-view. Such as whether the "masters" in their struggles...
... Is he saying anything more than what Tolstoy said better in War and Peace? That was a criticism of the Napoleon cult, and insofar as Nietzsche fell for...
... Zarathustra said the ape to man is a laughing stock or an embarrassment. Isn't that now a rather old fashioned view? Isn't there today more of a feeling...
... "masters" ... Maybe not: so this is "just politics" then, as you once liked to say? As if such a person's politics weren't highly revealing, nevertheless. ...
... Actually we all have our own purposes. Who is `always going on about hierarchies and dominion and some soi-disant "natural" justice', I hope you are not...
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