ChatteringMonkey

I don't see why that is a problem, that's part of it sure. Money also doesn't make sense without humans giving it meaning and valuing it, though there...

It is what i meant to type... but you may be interpreting it not as I intended. But i don't think it matters, I agree, dispositions are not interperso...

Merely in quotes... It is less people, particular only to an individual. It's a bad idea, if you hold the value that you don't want whatever the negat...

To elaborate a bit more, if you say morality is subjective because the valuing happens in the brain, you need some additional explanation to say that ...

My goal, and I would say the goal of philosophy is not to amount to anything "substantial" whatever that means, but to make sense of the world. I don'...

It's a type of convention, which originate in dialogue and agreement between people roughly speaking. You can find it in the brains of people, but not...

Don't quite understand what you mean, sorry. Care to elaborate?

Ethics or morality is neither subjective nor objective, but collective or intersubjective if you will. And as such they are a real feature of groups t...

I will say I have a hard time envisioning what the quotes from Deleuze would actually entail... maybe I don't quite get the concept of the overman for...

Then I come back the question of what 'unbound by a creed' could possibly mean in practice. Since I believe, with Joshs, that everybody necessarily po...

But I don't think, and I don't think N. did either, that Ceasar or Napoleon believed that there was a right or superior value system... at least in an...

Right, I think it's important to figure out what 'unbound by a creed' means in practice? I don't think that could just mean unbound by any sort of per...

Maybe you're right, don't have time to respond now, I'll come back to it later...

Well I think both, the anarchist and the Napoleon/Ceasar, are 'above a creed'. The difference is, I think, that anarchism implies some sort of idealis...

The thing about Christanity, Buddhism and Toasism is that they tend to the universal, trying to transcent particular traditions of peoples, Völker... ...

The übermensch being a sort of anarchist is a bit of a hard sell I think. Above the law yes, but more as a Napoleon or a Ceasar, than as an anarchist.

Russell was a pacifist, so presumably he would have to let himself get beat up by Nietzsche if he wants to stay true to his philosophy.

Yes it would seem hard to convincingly scathe the Apollonian in a long structured and systematic treatise :-)

Sure, reading him will help your understanding too, in particular how Nietsche got his idea about the importance of the will, and how his idea of it d...

I don't know about Platonism being the first manifestation of the Apollonian, it's been a while since i've read BoT, but wasn't the tragic a fusion of...

Boring or not, if you don't know anything about the thing someone is a critiquing, how can you possibly evaluate that critique? And I doubt you will u...

Did you read the rest of my post? I said you need read it to understand what he is critiquing, not because I think, or Nietzsche thinks, it is a parti...

Here's another slightly different recommendation, start with Plato, maybe specifically Plato's republic. A lot of Nietzsche is a direct or indirect cr...

Some will no doubt disagree with this, but I think, going back to the beginning with Socrates, philosophy, or at least good philosophy, is ultimately ...

One of Nietzsches quotes along these line is : "There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy" Or another one : "I beseech you, my...

Another possibility it seems to me is that, even if they wanted to make the world a better place, they wouldn't know how. Figuring out how to maximize...

So then we established that the question is whether everyone should be allowed to vote on the people who will make the decisions. As it stands, not ev...

Okay, anything else? Claws and tails… and what about culture, tradition, upbringing? Do they also form emotional responses? And if so, does this still...

Yes they define our value and motivation, but could there be anything that defines them? Or are they some force we are born with and nothing can influ...

And to give some more explanation to my question, I want to examine the assumption that feelings are 'authentic' without rational thought. Are there o...

Yes sorry that's what i mean. I was paraphrasing your sentence, and messed up somehow :-)

Here's a question, do you think that emotional reactions are necessarily unhabited without rational thought? Or put in another way, is rational though...

People will compete for the power to rule. Absent any system or rules, that competition will be brutal and bloody. Democracy is one of the ways transi...

Bit late to the party, but here's my two cents... If by religion he means the religions he knows (Christianity, and judeo-christian religions) then i ...

Karl stone, to illustrate my point further, what about for instance Hindoeism and its caste system? That civilization, and the religion it is build on...

I think I agree with that, 'a-moral virtu', that is beyond 'good and evil' but not beyond 'good and bad'.

Ok, I agree with this. God as a way of giving morality it's authority... Well I think for Nietzsche there wasn't a single 'natural' morality. Both wer...

My excuses for the hiatus, I've been awfully busy the last couple of days... My point was that Nietzsche wasn't talking about God or religion in gener...

I don't think I agree with this. We were long past running arround naked with sharp sticks when Judeo-christian morality came arround. Or I probably s...

Good posts, but... I don't think he said or meant religious morality unspecified, I think he meant Jewish morality. He didn't necessarily have a probl...

Yes we do, if they make bad arguments or weird assumptions just to come to certain conclusions. Then we know they just want to prove their prejudices....

When is Philosphy just Bolstering the Status Quo? When it's primary concerned with what should be, instead of what is. Or in other words, good philoso...

Ok, I think they will be different, like I said because the difference is that we created and can easily change the one, and not the other. The world ...

Alright, then forget about the word 'real'. What is 'really real' doesn't matter one iota unless you want metaphysical certainty, i.e. knowlegde for k...

Meh, if it's a simulated world already, it's certainly not one I can easily change with my ideas alone, unlike say Virtual Reality... it's functionall...

Good question, I've been thinking along the same lines... that 'idealism' could finally become the case afterall. We can't be certain of what's going ...

I basically agree with the opening post. People generally think of 'the laws' that govern human societies and behavior as if these are things that can...

Sorry for not responding earlier, it's been a busy few days... I certainly agree that from a scientific point of view it would be preferable to choose...

Yeah my bad, I read the hydrogen part, but didn't think about it writing my post. It was more an example of the type of questions I would have. I gues...

Also i think we should look into the technological possibility of building a sun shield... it seems very probable by now that stopping CO2 emissions w...