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Either do I, but I assume Chris does accept what it says, and if not, that may well be a matter of choice, just as is your choice not to accept it.

You are well practiced in obfuscation. Why? You have already made it clear. The thing about Trumpspeak is that he always attempts to leave room for pl...

Faith and belief are not the same, but related. Faith is also related to trust and acceptance. Since we are talking about Christian faith: One who doe...

Speaking personally, it is true that I do not accept Christianity because I lack faith. A simple statement of fact. It may be true that I lack intelli...

It seems to me that you are confusing perception with a theory of perception. You begin with a questionable assumption that perception is passive rece...

The problem is, we do not know what Jesus said. We only know of the varied and conflicting things said by those who regard themselves as Christians. I...

Chris's claim is true, if you accept how faith is described in the NT, but false if you accept a different standard of faith. A Jew or Muslim, for exa...

So to clarify your position, you do not know why the rioters were there or what they were doing or what would have happened if security measures faile...

True, but there is more to it. The rumor was that Pence was going to bring a picnic lunch for everybody. Understandably they went in search of it and ...

Dewey is the main target of conservatives who oppose "progressivism". The irony is that some of these same conservatives are great admirers of Lincoln...

Evidently you do not: A threat and the motivation behind it are two different things. You say you do not pretend to know someone's motivations, but do...

I did not fear for Pence's life. I, along with most of us, learned of it after the fact. It was those who acted to prevent the mob from inflicting fur...

I think that what both Lampert and Rosen are getting at is that the expectation of the Übermensch sounds messianic. In line with this I would argue th...

Instead of guessing try thinking. There is a difference between a threat and the fulfillment of a threat. Threats can be averted. Do you really not un...

There are other capacities involved in realizing full human potential. Not everyone's potential reaches the full human potential.

The primary question is: What is the good life? If we cannot answer that we cannot address the question of what makes it good. The problem is, the que...

Yes, we keep telling you that! I give your credit though, not everyone can make a molehill out of a mountain.

And yet on and on you go. Like your dear leader, you like to hear yourself talk. And like him, you continue to demonstrate your cluelessness. It is no...

Thank you for this example of what is at issue. The feds and the 4th estate, the government and the press, complicit in a hoax against our supreme dea...

How quickly you forget. There was no insurrection when Trump was elected. There was no attack on the nation's Capital. Clinton did not attempt to unde...

This goes far beyond contesting or disputing an election. To pretend that all this is politics as normal is disingenuous. This is the first time in US...

The term "state" can be misleading. It is not a condition. It is the realization or actualization of a capacity.

Best case: he flushed them down the toilet. Sheds light on his claim that "people are flushing their toilets 10 times, 15 times".

Reducing what is happening to a contest of political opponents is indicative of the depth of the problem. There is nothing ordinary about what is goin...

What does one expect or hope for from such arguments? Can the existence or non-existence of God be determined by argument? Or is it a matter of findin...

I have from time to time thought about this. Z comes down from the mountain. There is a political aspect to Nietzsche's work.* TSZ is, as the subtitle...

There are some here, in a thread on reading Nietzsche, who are evidently doing their part in aiding his triumph. "jp is Jordan Peterson? Someone obvio...

It could only be as clear and lucid as those to whom it is addressed. A funny and revealing story from Genesis: God clearly tells Adam not to eat of t...

Who are these "Nietzsche fans"? I do not think that Nietzsche scholarship has become a popularity contest. Or is it that rigorous scholarship is not t...

Z says: This reminds us of Aquinas' claim that man is higher than the animals and lower than the angels. Nietzsche accepts the idea of higher and lowe...

He raises several important issues which are worth discussing.

I will stick around but don't want to take the lead. A sensible approach.

No.

Yes and no. It is the metamorphoses of the spirit (Holy Ghost, Hegel). I will hold off saying more until we get there.

The saint says: The ancient prophet of good and evil, who overturned the religion of his time, has a new teaching, beyond good and evil. Nietzsche, th...

In line with Nietzsche's play of opposites, something lost and something found. (3) This is elaborated upon later: (43)

The fine tuning argument amounts to saying that if things were different they would not be as they are. It does not preclude the existence of a very d...

No links, unless pointing to texts like Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Ethics and Politics count as links. Look at the relation and distinction betw...

Funny and true, but Nietzsche did not say we should all be individuals, quite the opposite. He says that most are not capable of being individuals and...

It's just you. These things were discussed but by other names.

Yes, and we should not ignore that Plato said that if we are to be just then men and women should exercise naked together, but this should not lead to...

What do you see as his spirit and in what way do those who praise him push against it?

I agree. Some associate Nietzsche with Nazism. It is important to uncover how this came about. It is through Nietzsche's sister Elisabeth who became h...

You make my point. There is also quite a bit on Nietzsche and Nazism. That does not mean he supported such thinking and practices or that the work on ...

It has nothing to do with our views on eugenics. It has to do with what Nietzsche said. What does Nietzsche say about eugenics? What does Nietzsche sa...

Based on what you have cited this is not about Nietzsche, it is about a questionable interpretation of Nietzsche that attempts to combine Nietzsche an...

That is because his task is not to create new values but to create creators. This is touched upon in his first speech, "On the Three Metamorphoses" (1...

The point is that it should not be taught that 2+2 "is" 4. That is the point of my seemingly contradictory or paradoxical statement. 3+1 "is" 4 is gen...

Not by choice, but as an undergrad we had to take a sequence of courses that lasted all four years, beginning with the pre-Socratics through toAlthoug...

The problem is always being in the "prelude" state. What I recommend, and I think most of us actually do, is to start somewhere and then move back and...