Maybe this is not what you're looking for, but I would suggest one can maybe better and more clearly speak of what you are pointing to in terms of wea...
I don't think there is a real problem, I think there's a problem with the language/concpets we use, i.e. free will. At some level we probably are like...
I explain what I mean with this the rest of my post(s). Since we are our will, and that is the agency part of us, it doesn't make sense to expect that...
I would agree they tend to fail because they are to superficial. Maybe they require a change at a deeper level, like adjusting ones values (our will),...
Change is possible if one thinks the will is not some unified thing, but rather something compound, or a result of many underlying competing drives. T...
It seems to me that a self as a central organising process doesn't solve the issue of what and why the self would choose to edit if it is supposed to ...
I don't think that "I" generate thought myself in the sense that there is some agent consciously deciding what to think before I have the thought. Don...
Post-hoc rationalisation probably was the original form of 'rational thinking', as social group-animals it was pretty important to justify/rationalize...
I don't think its usefull because free-will doesn't even make sense conceptually. We are free to act on our will, but not free to choose our will.... ...
It should try to be less reliant on the US for its defence by building up one itself, try to establish more of a foreign policy agenda of its own to w...
But specifically to the 'worst' imaginable part, we used to just move to some other part of the globe when faced with ecological problems... the probl...
Yes, and for socialists it's a workers utopia, for enviromentalists it's a pre-agrarian garden of eden... I do think the idea that we are living in th...
Ok, thank you for your efforts to make your points more clear. I think I agree with this by and large, but I probably come at it from an opposite angl...
Yeah, I've read your post several times to figure out what exactly you were pointing to. And I'm still not sure. While I don't necessarily disagree wi...
I think you are reading to much into this, most civilisations tend to suffer from entropy over time and slide into decadence. And the reason for this ...
In the sense that the individual doesn't get a say in where or what he has to contribute to society? Yes I would say that his political philosophy is ...
Are you asking if that is what Plato said, what his view on it was. Or if what Plato said is true in reality, in how things play out? I don't think I ...
This is how Plato would frame things perhaps ;-). Thrasymachus or any realist would say that Plato is essentially doing the same thing, i.e. vying for...
Positive. as I believe, with Nietzsche, that this is essentially where philosophy took a wrong turn, in siding with Plato's idealism (as all of wester...
You could also view Amor Fati as a classic Tragic formula, i.e. the tragic hero who aims high and knows he will fail in the end, but still loves and a...
Yes I get that you don't want to claim that he wants to promote Chirstian values, but that he was inspired by Jesus specifically. I guess I just have ...
He wasn't married to it insofar it conflicts with life-affirmation. Some fictions are necessary for life,... some, not that many, truth is still impor...
What is I think important to realise here is that, while most of these discriptions of Jesus may sound positive to "our modern ears", Nietzsche probab...
Thank you for the reference. Yes, this was the idea I got from reading the Anti-Christ, that he though him to be a bit of an idiot... but an idiot can...
The way I would make sense of it, is that Jesus is only a yea-sayer in the sense that he affirms his inner world of sensations, because he has become ...
Notice the quotation marks arround free spirit though. He's saying it tongue in cheek, 'technically' he's a free spirit... because nothing gets to him...
Degeneration? ;-) Childishness is not the same as childlike. In any case in context it seems clear to me that he doesn't mean it as a positive in this...
Well it seems to me it's not only their pessimism that got them fired, but especially their activism. I think maybe there is a case to be made that a ...
Hansens position seems to be a minority position among Climate scientists, which doesn't mean he's wrong ofcourse, but still a minority position. If h...
He is a symbol for Nietzsche, but a symbol for the psychological state of bliss ("kingdom of heaven") and a symbol for the values he opposes because t...
Nietzsche himself yes, Jesus no, would be my interpretation. Zarathustra is the mouthpiece for Nietzsches philosophy. A lot of his next work Beyond Go...
But there wasn't anything specifically about Jesus in the aphorisms you encouraged me to read, other than the very last sentence I had quoted. He's an...
Alright I have read through it, once more, and it just seems to confirm what I already wrote earlier, Nietzsches aim is to flip the moralist/prophet p...
Literally the last sentence of his last work : "Have I been understood? Dionysus versus the Crucified" There's still a versus there. If you want to ma...
Yes it was his first book, immature and still under the influence of Schopenhauer (and Hegel) as he said so himself. He views evolved over time, and h...
Yes I know, he disliked the church doctrines even more than the true Christian ideal.... that doesn't mean he liked Christs true teachings. It is poss...
No, I don't think so. It is Dionysus VERSUS The Crucified... AGAINST the Crucified. That is the fundamental opposition he settled on in the end, after...
Also he deemed the old testament much higher than the new testament, the gospel. So a rejecting of Jewish doctrine is not necessarily allways a positi...
I don't see how that proves your point. It describes the "kingdom of heaven" as a psychological state to be attained here on earth... that is the idea...
The only similarity is that Jesus and Zarathustra were creators of values. That's the one aspect Nietzsche could respect in Jesus, that he had the str...
One other straightforward reason for his continued influence up to now, is that most of the 20th century French philosophers took him up, they were al...
Historically zarathustra was the first monotheist, inventor of the good and evil dualism.... the archetype of prophet-moralist leading people astray, ...
Yes, one of the reasons probably... Nietzsche's main question, how we get beyond Christian values after the dead of the Christian God is still an open...
I think the probability depends on 1) whether the US will face a serious economic crisis or not, and 2) whether someone with enough charisma and talen...
He was a classical philologist, and studied ancient Greek texts from a young age. Check out his dissertation on Theognis of Megara. What sets him apar...
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