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I agree. From The Three Metamorphoses”. I think part of the answer to the riddle or enigma of the eternal return is "the moment", the "gateway", the "...

The question is: to what end? If the end is arguing for the sake of arguing, then there can be no advance, just endless argument.

But given the eternal return all those outcomes have played out a countless number of times. And given the eternal return there is nothing new in the ...

I don't give a fig about dates. I do eat Froot Loops though. My education in philosophy is solely through cartoons, but I don't limit myself to the cl...

That is shallow, frivolous, and unphilosophical. It is the reason why Plato reserves the practice of philosophy for those who are mature enough to app...

For some negative attention is better than no attention. Some regard the lack of approval as a sign of superiority. They understand what others do not...

I would say that it is more than a thought experiment. The eternal return is a riddle. One key to reading that riddle the problem of creation. If all ...

Feh! What doesn't kill me makes me stronger. I need to rest up now. And I need to do something about the orange dust on my keyboard. But that can wait...

Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols Said one skeptic about another. Both must be read skeptically, and this in the original Greek sense of skeptis. In li...

Me too. These days my self-overcoming amounts to disrupting my routine of sitting on the couch watching cartoons and eating Cheetos to moving to the r...

No. I am interested in the interpretation of texts. What these texts say about the gods is a reflection of what they say about man and In turn they ha...

The last man is, as the name indicates, is one out of which nothing is born. From Zarathustra's prologue: Fukuyama's thesis it that history has come t...

I am talking about the stories in the Hebrew Bible. Birthright is controversial. The stories I mentioned are a rejection of the practice. I don't. Yes...

From a source we might not expect: — Wittgenstein Culture and Value

As I understand it, it is not that they must rule but that they do. Perhaps the quote in context sheds light: (BGE, 211) Nietzsche's political philoso...

Yes. But the issue is lineage and birthright. See the discussion above about Moses and the god of their fathers : https://thephilosophyforum.com/discu...

This needs to be seen within its historical context. It was a way of self-overcoming. It turns inward and makes its weakness into its strength. Their ...

There may be some truth to that, but the story is not a prohibition against human sacrifice. If others are to be like Abraham it would be by not withh...

I think it is often the case that we do not know when we are being dishonest, especially to one's self about our self. I think that some who have been...

In Nietzsche's case it is a question of perceived by whom. He does not want to be understood by just anyone who reads him. His explicit about this. Pe...

I don't think so. As with other influential thinkers throughout history, his work has been taken and twisted in different ways. Rand claimed that the ...

To link Nietzsche and Rand is to misunderstand both.

But Nietzsche's Ubermensch is not resentful. He does not advocate or feed off of resentment.

It would be interesting to trace that back. When did resentment become central to Republicans? One might think that it is the have-nots who would be r...

While I agree with most of what you have said, loyalty to "the truth" is often loyalty to an ideology called "truth". When it and people stand on oppo...

A favorite of today's Republicans.

I am interested to see how you will develop this distinction. I have not looked into this but I suspect that at least in part he is playing on the sin...

Who are Nietzsche's women? They include Life and Wisdom. (Zarathustra, "The Dance Song") Nietzsche begins Beyond Good and Evil by talking about anothe...

She is trying to appeal to all sides. I don't think it is a winning strategy. She said she would pardon Trump. She will not be able to distance hersel...

Because we do not have an adequate understanding of matter. The puzzle is based on a concept of matter that makes the problem the equivalent of explai...

In part this is true.Those who voted for him because of his anti-abortion stance already held that view. Those who are anti-gay or anti-trans did not ...

What do you think this meant to them? It is a term we find in the Hebrew Bible. It is a term used by Paul in much the same way. A son of God is someon...

Since Trump was elected Plato's warning about how democracies degenerate into tyrannies through demagogues has frequently pointed to. The demagogue po...

I really don't care that you criticize Biden. What I care about is reasoned argument. It has become evident that will not be forthcoming.

Pointing to the same argumentative tactics that someone uses is not likening you to anyone.

I think that is what Zhuangzi is questioning, the transformation of perception. What do we know of it other than what others have said? When Dogen tal...

You asked: "how do we have knowledge". The point is that knowledge of how to make clothes is something that begins with rudimentary attempts, not deve...

Are you aware that this is a standard Trumpian rhetorical tactic, claiming that everyone knows or everyone says or everyone thinks? Again, an allegati...

I don't know either. The answer we are likely to get from them will depend on whether Putin is listening. But whatever their perception might be it mi...

Being "involved" might mean several different things. What I said is that he cannot be blamed. Are you putting the blame on him? More accusations with...

War is always profitable ... for some. How do the people feel? How will they feel long term? How closely aligned are the perception and the reality?

His administration is committed to Ukraine joining NATO despite Putin's rhetoric. It is a defensive move in response to Putin's aggression. Right. The...

The metaphor of the tree of knowledge is not intended to be an explanation, magical or otherwise. But the story does point to desire and vulnerability...

In that case, if you cannot rule out Putin attacking if Trump was president, the connection with Biden is tenuous. He is responsible for knowingly sow...

Are you claiming that this would not have happened if Trump was in office? Are you going to blame Biden for Putin's invasion of Cimea in 2014? In resp...

Why is that ironic? What evidence do you have of this post hoc claim? With funding provided by Congress.

In typical fashion the Trumpsters they gets things backwards, as if it were because he is hated that he cannot be seen for who he is. The truth is, be...

What it means is having knowledge and not dying. This is elaborated on in the story of the Tower of Babel where God's concern is that man will be able...

In the Chinese philosophy class we read: Kongzi (Confucius), Mozi, Mengzi (Mencius),Laozi (“The Daodejing”), and Zhuangzi. The Daodejing is perhaps th...

"Originalism" is a term used to disguise the indeterminacy of legal interpretation by appearing to give it a solid foundation. It is a slogan that doe...