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When we see each other through the lens of a well-intentioned but disingenuous ideological lens there is a danger of dehumanizing them. Our difference...

Given his training as a philologist it seems likely than Nietzsche make the connection with the etymological meaning of aesthetic, to perceive, althou...

All too often certainty can be a special class of delusion. It is. Only you don't see it because you assume the existence of the very thing in questio...

Without epistemological certainty there can be no certainty of ontological reality. Moral realism remains an assertion. If we do not know what is righ...

Right. This supports the claim of moral relativism, that even under the pretext of what is unchanging and absolute the beliefs and values of human bei...

I would go further and say that anyone who is certain does not understand it. Becoming without teleology. Perspectivism. My approach is to read him ca...

Do you mean no historical evidence taking place or no historical evidence of them taking place in the rabbinical era? In other words, your definition ...

The problem is, at least from what you have provided, is that it does not solve the riddle of "The Vision and The Enigma". It does not respond to the ...

These are not mutually exclusive, many but not all scholars are believers. Are you claiming that stoning was never taken literally? If it conflates yo...

It should be kept in mind that reading Deleuze's reading of Nietzsche is reading Deleuze not Nietzsche.

The only strawman here is the one you made. It is not a matter of reading the myths literally. How do you understand the following: The term translate...

The God of the Hebrew Bible cannot be defined as good without ignoring all the bad things attributed to him. The stories may be myth but as you say: S...

In the section "The Vision and the Enigma" in Zarathustra:

This fits in well with the motif of going up and down, ascent and descent, higher and lower. Rather than the movement from this world to the eternal h...

I don't know what this means. Certainly not an experience like seeing the Grand Canyon which is there to be experienced. Perhaps like deja vu, which m...

I think we have had this conversation before. I have not read enough of his work to say; but if I did, do you think we would agree in our interpretati...

The quote above continues: I don't think he regarded philosophy as the new religion or "religion", but rather, religion is what creators create. To wh...

An intentional or unintentional pun? Yes. When religion is free of transcendence the creators of religion need not be bound to it. Yes.

We should pause to consider Nietzsche's idea of a god who philosophizes. This is part of his dialectic with Plato. He says: Both are skeptics in the o...

Yes, but this is not simply for the benefit of the ruler. A significant benefit of Christianity was a matter of self-control. But what was then a bene...

They should be viewed in light of what they are opposed to. They are by themselves no more religion than being and obedience are. People do not need t...

This is a common misunderstanding. He did not want to replace religion, he wanted to overcome Christianity. He recognized the importance of religion. ...

I think this is right, but should be seen within the larger problem of history. What is properly regarded as good or evil is historically contingent. ...

Note the title of the chapter is not "Writing" but "Reading and Writing". He is in part addressing writers with regard to readers - But he is also add...

Hank Williams sings:

I think this was rhetorical. He is reported to have said: In other words, he was well aware of the danger of allegations of impiety and atheism. So, t...

Here is the first word on sin in Genesis, direct from God to Cain: Paul's teaching to the gentiles is quite different. Here sin rules over man rather ...

If what is best for us is fair then god, as stipulated, must be fair. If what is best for us is not what is fair, then, for our own good, god is not f...

Well, if your baby is the bass player in a blues band sometimes she has got to walk, but more often a shuffle is the bassic default.

What is the essential element of your creation that cannot ever vary that leads to paradoxical conclusions? No logical puzzle arises from positing an ...

It is a question that philosophical analysis shows to be ill conceived and question begging.

With enough nous you can hang yourself.

The various anthropocentric views expressed here (including those that want to exempt themselves) are in one sense correct in so far as they share Pro...

I think there will always be a need for carefully crafted, well thought out arguments. It may be, however, that there will come a time when thinking t...

I am in general agreement regarding social media, but in the universe of discourse, most of our intellectual history has not been face-to-face, but ra...

Critical thinking addresses this, but identifying and refuting logical fallacies is only a part of it. A weak argument is not limited to one that cont...

If philosophy is the love of wisdom then it is necessary to address claims of wisdom. Theological beliefs and claims are part of our intellectual and ...

So, in other words, belief in a higher power makes no difference to whether one is moral or not.

One can read this in light of the later doctrine of the Trinity or in the plain sense of this, that, and the other, that is, three separate but relate...

If it is true that its sushi tomorrow then it can never be true that it is sushi today, or something like that, as the Queen tells Alice.

I think Apollodorus suffers from the delusion of what Hegel called the Universal night where all cows are black. Under the guise of shedding light he ...

I take it to mean that they had the knowledge to do or make or produce or procreate (Adam knew Eve), the results of which are both good and bad.

If he asked why one ought to care about human life I would take the question as argumentative since it seems he does care. If he meant why those who d...

How can there be matter without form? There is no meaning without beings for whom things have meaning. Meaning is not inherent in form. Things can mea...

In order to change our mind there must be good reason to do so. Moral deliberation is not capricious. Rape is not an isolated moral issue, it is part ...

Which is abundantly clear from your posts. You have argued that Jesus is the messiah based in part on the alleged lineage from David to Jesus. There a...

I don't know. Maybe for once actually reading what you link to?

I would add the importance of experience. In the Tractatus, rewards and punishment, and the happy man. In the Lecture on Ethics, certain feelings.

Nice summary!