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If one were able to separate the effects of a philosophy from the 'truth' for the sake of evaluation, wouldn't all efforts toward that end have to be ...

I have some books I have read many times over the years. I still have not "grokked" them. In some cases, I am losing ground.

This is pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCHnJ42qIs0

I thought that this site ruled out the very possibility of accidents. Or, at least, as I experienced my own. Oh wait, that is too whiney. Carry on.

Very interesting. Needing a reason for a reason not indicting all attempts toward those ends. (Your comment went well beyond that observation).

It is interesting that Zelensky was not asking the 'bloggers' to shut up but chill with the absolute immediacy element. The information war includes t...

Well, I do not share the ready optimism of Leibniz, but he did show that all alternatives do not need to be cancelled for something to be viable. The ...

Does it not matter who is putting forth a dogma and what it is? It sounds like you want an unconditional boundary.

I never got cruise ships before Covid and am continually astounded that they still exist but KCII sounds even more dangerous if that is new recipe at ...

Zelensky acknowledged some success in recent operations but added this: Zelensky also appealed to "some bloggers," as he put it, "not to complicate th...

Before anybody tries to prove anything with it, wasn't Leibniz saying that everything that exists must have some reason for being here because the thi...

What does PSR refer to?

Euclid did pretty well with the second method. That another set of premises is possible doesn't make fidelity to the one's adopted unsatisfactory.

Each of those thoughts merit exploration. I don't want to hijack this thread to discuss them, especially since it would call for reading much more tha...

I was thinking of Nietzsche's idea of our present science as something that was available but problematic as a vehicle of certain knowledge. So, the n...

What is natural does seem to be the central issue. And how we talk about that seems to be the most contested thing.

The text I read says that no such help will be given toward that end. The writing seems to go to some effort to welcome the absence of such assurances...

Was not the point of the declaration to remark upon how the experience is given as fact? An aspect of the given reality no more or less 'real' than th...

The message from Hicks I hear relates to how Nietzsche said that one has to be careful who one decides is an enemy because one elevates them by fighti...

I am not sure 'reality' has been backed into a corner on this matter. The little we understand is not written against a promise that we should have re...

Alternatively, the message could have been: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW9-FOLG-iA

I wonder if the element of differentiating between 'objective and subjective' puts the cart before the horse when looking at earlier views of the divi...

I object to the following language in the article: This overlooks Nietzsche's rejection of 'natural' selection as a mechanical process as described by...

I think the chapter, On The Afterworldly, addresses those questions: The youthful quality shared between the Saint and Zarathustra is different from t...

As Nietzsche would probably say to J Peterson if he was around:

I am willing to keep reading and respond to interesting observations. Let's see how many other people want something from the discussion. I think unen...

That question cuts across a number of themes that don't resolve into a single interpretation. In the Divine Songs of Zarathustra, the language of the ...

Many of the responses are not invested in finding something for themselves in the text. The discussion has become a parade where the ideas need to be ...

This expression does not fit with any of the text I have read. It contradicts the argument in Philosophical Fragments. It turns the Works of Love into...

Students are often the harshest voice against their teachers.

Nice dodge.

Which folk?

Is that a metaphor for what I am asking for or the quality of what you revile? Or both?

Which he himself observed. Maybe the thread you want to anchor is not a reading discussion of a particular book but a list of what you reject from his...

Your question is a good one. In the Republic, Glaucon wants to get to an end and be done with the matter. Socrates turns that desire into a new proble...

Is trying to understand him, as he presents his thought, an act of praise? Is your revulsion the measure of all who don't share in it?

Especially when they are profoundly misunderstood. I suggest reading Genealogy of Morals, Essay 3, section 26 for a thorough thrashing of antisemites,...

Do you have a body of text from Lyotard that you could link to give a better view of his thinking? Academic journals give references to his work, but ...

Zarathustra spares the Saint from disillusion but tries to shake the community of men from the dream. The key element is the contempt that kept the dr...

It relates because it undercuts the language of purpose regarding the production of great people in the other Schopenhauer quote. In the general discu...

Well, that collection of thoughts is at odds with Nietzsche saying the following about will as expressed by Schopenhauer: It has been noted by Kaufman...

Yes, I see how the Genealogy of Morals quote ties into the 'ethics of power.' But from where do you see the process being about 'producing great human...

How do you relate these commentaries to the clear rejection of Christian belief put forward by Nietzsche? Do you have a set of quotes by Nietzsche tha...

That is some kind of glitch I cannot remove. No link there.

I think that references outside of the TSZ text throws light upon what is going on there. But I take your point that I am asking everyone to read all ...

Which passages argue that 'humanity should be bent toward creating great human beings?' Nietzsche went to much effort to demonstrate that such a measu...

I am not sure about McPherson's contention that the treatment of the Saint was a function of changing views N had of the 'ethics of power.' The view o...

I like it because it calls out what I too reject.:

A couple of strong themes in Nietzsche work against the arbitrary quality of narratives suggested here. The genealogy of morals may not make them nece...

If you are keen to discuss the work, perhaps you could start with the beginning passages and give your impressions. Book discussions are difficult to ...