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What Heidegger meant was that Nietzsche was the last to follow in Descartes’ s footsteps in treating the world as picture , as objects represented by ...

Yes, the self is a community of competing drives, and they are loosely united by one overarching drive or will to power, that dominates at any given t...

We already know we colloquially use and understand notions like ‘decision’, ‘choice’ and ‘will’ in different ways according for different philosophies...

You’re right, the first two paragraphs are Thompson and the last two are from Zahavi. Good catch ( didnt think anyone was paying attention).

Well, I don’t think following Habermas’s Kantian modernist path is the answer.

A number of writers make a distinction between physicalism and naturalism on the basis of the inclusion or exclusion of the role of subjective point o...

That cartoon is funny. But there’s a reason it’s a cartoon. It collects all the misguided cliches about Nietzsche, i.e. that he’s just promulgating a ...

All are not of equal value during the period of time when one is working one’s way through a particular value system. One doesn’t live in all values, ...

I think there are many useful readings of Nietzsche, but as is the case with any notable philosopher, these often conflict strongly with each other. T...

If on the mark means more objective, then that gets to the heart of the difference between Freud and Nietzsche. As Daniel Berthold puts it:

“Say that it's Oedipus, or you'll get a slap in the face”. Classic What philosopher before Deleuze ever began a work this way:

My favorite section of Anti-Oedipus:

I confess to being an ignoramus when it comes to Classical history, as well as Greek philosophy. I always skip past Nietzsche’s writings on the Greeks...

Oy. Your cardiovascular system may not be too thrilled with that routine.

Do you expect the “real” reasons for these developments to be available outside of all culturally influenced interpretation? And if not, how does one ...

Foisting and mandatory reshaping aren’t good, and not very Nietzschean. When I said that I take Deleuze to be moving further on Nietzsche’s path, I ha...

We each get to pick our favorite Nietzschean, the contemporary figure we believe best furthers the path of exploration laid out by Nietzsche. My choic...

As long as you think reality is something that has to be ‘matched to knowledge’ you’re screwed from the get-go. Assuming consciousness as an ‘in-itsel...

What do you suppose are Nietzsche’s ‘own terms’? Isnt that the central question? We never read a philosophy by descending into the pristine purity of ...

Nietzsche was among the first philosophers to critique the long-standing bias within philosophy giving preference to presence over absence, the genera...

There are at least two disparate uses of the world ‘post-modernist’ floating around in our era. The first is a socio-political term referring to pract...

“Out of life's school of war—what doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.” (Twilight of the Idols)

In order to treat Nietzsche’s approach to history fully, I think one needs to be familiar with the following: 1)The difference between history and his...

If it never left you, you wouldn’t know you had it. What I mean is boredom is a comparison, just as sadness or happiness. It requires a letdown from a...

Perhaps. Then again, your reading of Nietzsche may be too neat.

We all do it anyway, whether we want to or not. Another way to put it is that life takes you where it wants you to go, not where you think you should....

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It’s more a matter of constraining the impulses of strength within oneself. By ‘strength’ Nietzsche meant a will to continual self-overcoming ( not pe...

Unless, of course, one is a pragmatist. Your notion of truth is just one theory of what truth means. Not everyone who does things for a reason would e...

I agree here. There are an infinity of competing rationalities out there. But we do tend to find some value systems more pragmatically useful than oth...

Absolutely none. So why don’t we dump moral realism and moral subjectivism and all other moldy conformist dictums stuck in the 18th century, which bli...

. Perhaps. But I might question bert1’s understanding of proper dinner party etiquette.

I would throw out the notion of immorality as bad intent, and along with it justice as blame and culpability. In place of principles to assess moral b...

And for the New Materialist knowing the world is interacting with it and interacting with it is changing it.

Would you agree with the following?

Among the alternatives to physicalism is the idea that thoughts are real objects in the world.

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On the other hand, it has been said that English is better suited to rock and roll than other languages , maybe due to the syllabic compactness of its...

You seem to be burning some of your Analytic philosophy bridges. Keep this up and you’ll have to join us Continental relativists. Wouldn’t that be a r...

Interesting. That makes me wonder. In what respect is a circle or the Mandelbrot set infinite? In the case of a fractal, it is a non-linear series whe...

I would assume that Wayfarer wouldn’t deny existence outside of perspective. But as an exercise, try to imagine constructing a sentence describing suc...

Metaphysics can also be taken to mean a perspective, paradigm or worldview within which we make use of and interpret the meaning of such concepts as e...

We can see from the varied responses to the OP that the concept of metaphysics is understood in distinctly different ways within philosophy. My unders...

And by using the normative label criminal, we can smugly justify our ‘belief’ that the locked up other is deserving of the harm we cause them. Bully f...

I don’t understand how the distinction between politics and ethics impacts on my comment. Whether we are talking about thought or action, the politica...

The worst atrocities in history were committed by those who believed they were morally righteous. Technically, they were following Hillel’s admonition...

And in a world where abortion is murder and transgender is a moral sickness it is more hateful/harmful to victims (fetuses and confused children) not ...

Shouldn’t that be changed to UNJUSTLY hateful or harmful? Isnt hate just a strong version of blame? I see billboards stating ‘Jesus says love your ene...

I agree wholeheartedly that these can be taken merely as non-objective suggestions, but my possibly mistaken impression from the OP was that moral goo...

The question is how ‘good’ is understood. Let’s say I define moral goodness as my inclination to praise and encourage those whose values I relate to, ...