Is this antoher example of Nietzsche's famous talent for contradicting himself? Towards what is it good to be tactfully reverent? The founding fathers? Or just...
Not historical relativism, but history as the unfolding of life from a human perspective. History is a human "invention", in this context a purley subjective ...
I dropped the word "not" fromm the last three lines of the first paragraph.;<br><br>it should say; "Life is beyond good and evil. if that consideration is NOT...
Another correction; "...history as the unfolding of life on a certain level is as such beyond morality, and Not vice versa.".<br><br>I am sorry for this sloppy...
The term, or mantra, 'Founding Fathers', is an offsrpring to the chants, 'Pater Familias' and 'Church Fathers', and just as real as any other magic charms- and...
"I first came to N by way of the eternal recurrence, which was a thought I<br> had before I ever read him. As a result, N the ontologist and<br> metaphysician...
For Nietzsche, melete psyche (care and tending of the soul) is a therapy akin to midwifery- and the soul is something, at least partially, given birth ...
But where would you be without the reverence for the founding fathers? <br>The noble man has a profound reverence for age and tradition. Somewhere Nietzsche...
I see him as a therapist, or as someone who is trying to write his own self help books. When he says he is most greatfull for his hardest moments, and that ...
"giving birth to self reverence"<br><br>reminds me of the thre short maxims in GS that he later points to as being extremely important.<br><br>What is bad - to...
the good things ids that we had more than one founding father in the USA so you can pick the ones you like and have reverence for them. and forget about the ...
When reality is mediated through social relations ( AND we are led to believe that there IS no other reality, these days), we find that in very left-wing ...
"How does the Ubermencsch correspond to the "Tweleve step Tradition" of addiction recovery and the overcoming of debilitating shame".<br><br>In no way at all. ...
"we find that in very left-wing countries, like Canada, and Britain, individuals no longer trust their individual judgements, and perhaps lose the capacity for...
The New World Order is what comes about when the left wing comes to power. This, in itself, is a contradiction of their ideology. For the leftists to be in ...
It seems that what you dislike you call 'leftist'. For fascism one has certain reference points, like Mussolini its founder, and in Britain Sir Oswald Mosley,...
"Actually, the authoritarian aspect is the only way the leftist know s how to rule (--See the contradiction?)"<br><br>- You mean it is a contradiction in that...
"Does the noble man have profound reverence for fabricated national myths and other such drivel?"<br><br>How bout an example of fabricated myths and drivel?...
Take your pick of mythic drivel. There are entire curricula built upon them. The presented (public) history of the USA is mythic and romanticized. From ...
Columbus has nothing to do with the founding principles of the US and NASA is just another government boondoggle, anathema to the founding principles. Take...
Except, of course the fact that this Nation's Kapitol is named the District of COLUMBUIA- named after that courageously deseased egomaniac Cristobal Colon- ...
Myth #1: This is God's Country and We are God's People: this story motivated millions to endure outrageous risk and terrible sacrifice- it also compulsed not a...
Wow. You are very angry, aren't you? I have yet to read Columbus' book "Common Sense" or Columbus' version of the Constitution. Come now, you can differentiate...
