I think we need to stop blaming ‘society’ for this, and recognise that we construct and reconstruct society in how we relate to each other. We need to...
As a happily married woman, I like to be able to openly appreciate and encourage the care and effort another man has taken with his body and appearanc...
I am a heterosexual female and I find human potential/value to be beautifully demonstrated by the female form as well as the male form. I’m more curio...
I’d say it’s the construction he’s attacking - the way we value ‘freedom’ and ‘equality’, for instance, without really understanding what it means to ...
I think Nietzsche’s philosophical approach identifies an internal, qualitative process at the heart of our interaction with the world, which language ...
But the point is that he’s NOT a philosopher today, so it’s unfair to attack his words out of context, as if he were. It was J S Mill’s focus on equal...
No, that’s not what I’m saying at all, and I don’t know where you got that from. Show me please where I made that comment. I did ask you to clarify wh...
Yes, Nietzsche was critical of the Enlightenment’s approach to constructing a more secular culture based on prevailing assumptions they considered to ...
I wasn’t going to bite on this one - it didn’t seem worth the effort. As a woman, I’m aware of expectations that I should be offended by the many dero...
This is what interests me about your position. You recognise that we are variable entities in relation to others, yet your view is that we should act ...
You seem intent on discrediting Nietzsche - you’re throwing everything at him, but I have to say that not much is sticking to his philosophical approa...
You’re missing a key point - I’m not saying in relation to society (I agree that he saw them as already collapsed), but in relation to other people. H...
Yes - it’s not for everyone, and I don’t find it an enjoyable read, myself. Too much like wading through the King James Bible. I prefer ‘Beyond Good a...
Potential is just the beginning, and it’s a necessary aspect of an intentional act. Perceiving our own potential to suffer, and being aware of the dif...
Thus Spake Zarathustra is a piece of fiction: a passionate rendering of his philosophical approach, and isn’t written as rational argument, but as exp...
Both demonstrated that aspects of the current culture had already lost its authority to some extent, and pointed to a new way of framing experience th...
Nietzsche thought his contemporary social structures - which defined compassion and other virtues by the Christian notion of self-denial - had lost th...
Thanks for the link! Kelly’s personal construct theory aligns well with my current philosophy, and your article on hostility is really interesting - p...
It’s not a question of whether you misunderstood Nietzsche - you seem to have a negative attitude towards Nietzsche based only on other people’s writi...
The way I see it, ‘evil’ is an arbitrarily set limit, at and beyond which any possibility of intentional relation is denied. I hadn’t really considere...
I’m curious as to how you might articulate these ‘reasonable reasons’ so that more people will act with kindness. The issue I have is that acting in a...
Socio-economic disparity compounds gender disparity - it doesn’t render it a non-issue. I’m aware that the choices available to me in terms of work fl...
To be honest, I don’t think it was all Hitler, it’s just easier to blame (purge) the leader. His ‘leadership’ was symptomatic of much of the thinking ...
I’m curious as to why you thought this would not be a popular view. I agree wholeheartedly with this description, and I think you’re being quite cauti...
The story of the Taoist farmer I think you’re referring to is from the Huainanzi. It goes something like this: There was once a farmer in ancient Chin...
This is a linear perspective of what is a multi-dimensional relation, polarised as abstraction. Computation as act refers to minimal variability and C...
I agree. It’s the open-ended possibility in his approach that unsettles people. Interpretation gives definition where he didn’t feel the need to limit...
It isn’t purely logical to act only as you feel. That doesn’t make sense. It sounds like you’re trying to justify emotionally motivated behaviour as ‘...
It isn’t so much the need for a substantial foundation as a structure, a methodology for navigating and understanding reality beyond our direct experi...
But that’s the issue - there IS no purely logical reason to act with compassion or kindness. To understand their significance, we need to recognise th...
I think there is plenty of misunderstanding about Nietzsche’s writings, because he doesn’t approach ‘man is a social animal’ in the same way as Aristo...
There is a connection between individualism and non-clinical depression. The idea that we’re supposed to be a self-sufficient or complete individual i...
If that’s the case, then it makes sense to share the load. But this ‘cultural assumption’ - that women are consistently unavailable for work - certain...
Yes - I’d agree that it’s attachment, not desire, which leads to suffering. Desire is part and parcel of our living existence. To avoid it is to avoid...
I feel for you, Tiff. And I don’t really have an answer for you. Not from where I am. Just an uncommon viewpoint. In a corner of the world that has se...
Access or reconstruct knowledge, not possess it. But otherwise, yes. This is a difference between asleep and awake. The knowledge we can access or rec...
This is what I was arguing before - it’s not about wanting to work, but the relative value and conditions of employed work that isn’t wanted. People h...
And this is what the issue is: the unwritten cultural assumption. It’s actually a load of crap that men are paid more for their ‘prospective availabil...
‘Self’ is a tricky notion. I think it’s a construct in the same way that everything is a construct, and that we feel a ‘sense of self’ in this desire ...
You’re not getting it. The ‘feminist struggle’ has nothing to do with obtaining some value, potential or significance that work offers in itself - it’...
Anyone who does work will tell you that they would choose NOT to work - IF they could still achieve the results that their work enables them to achiev...
First of all, the premise that ‘nobody wants to work’ is false. To work: - to be engaged in physical or mental activity in order to achieve a result; ...
Yep. Well, this is all fascinating on a mathematical level :yawn:, but the question in the OP was: 1. You can’t actually take from an infinite ocean, ...
I’ve been watching a TV series on whales, and their level of intelligence seems pretty high to me. They appear to have quite complex language use and ...
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