Why is that the greatest suffering imaginable?! You surely have to be kidding! How can that be the greatest suffering imaginable? The fact that you ma...
It is, however - it does show that Nietzsche was a hypocrite who didn't really believe what he wrote. Either that, or that he rejected his writings. I...
Right. By falling on his knees and protecting a horse who was getting beaten he was very true to THESE words of his: "What belongs to greatness. Who w...
Yes, imperfection isn't a problem, but there's a difference between imperfection and dishonest thinking or otherwise just being a bad person. I'm not ...
Sometimes the thinker does, and those ultimately end up being the thinkers I'm most interested in. Think for example about Thomas Aquinas, or Kierkega...
We do have biographical material about some of them though. Not as extensive as we do about more recent figures, but we still do. Can a thinker's beha...
Okay, but I'm not a utilitarian. I don't care about the effect. I am a virtue ethicist, I care about their characters. What your policies say tells me...
Sure. Yes, but only provided you find the right person. For example, I would like to get married, but I haven't so far found the right person. Most of...
Yes, but personal behaviour is a lot more important than the policies they advocate. It's easy to advocate the good from a distance. It's easy to "lov...
Depends on one's calling. Life long celibacy is as acceptable as marriage in Christianity - in fact it is even encouraged more than marriage. Even if ...
Not all people are meant to marry. K. knew that if he had married he would have to abandon his devotion to God and to philosophy. >:O So what? There's...
I think they do. Supporting a war in theory - or in writing - directly harms nobody. Adultery and fornication directly harm several people, and you ar...
No, I'm saying I don't expect to succeed if I try to practice honesty using the tools K. advocated. In other words, he cannot help me become a better ...
It depends on a few circumstances. For example, if he came up with the idea after he had committed whatever sin is in question, and after he repented ...
>:O I'm exactly the same as you. If I find out something like that about a thinker, I'm much less tempted to investigate deeper what s/he said. If it ...
If you have a pill that treats a certain disease, but some people who have the disease refuse to take the pill, then it is not the pill's failure to t...
I did actually intend to say this, because there is a sense in which God does predetermine what a man does. By, say, determining the total number of c...
In this passage, what I had in mind by God "predetermining" them to something is, if, say, they are born in a certain family, certain time period, etc...
Yes, nowhere in what you cite is there something about "loving" the burglar who is trying to kill my wife. Quite the opposite, there is something abou...
And to say Nietzsche was honest misses the entire point. If he was honest, then even worse! For I have the right to hate him because he's advocating i...
That's precisely the point, he wasn't. He was a coward himself. As for me, I was very honest that I'd cut the burglar's head off and save my wife, why...
If that's what being enlightened means, then I certainly don't want to be enlightened. Do you? I love my wife, so I hate the burglar. You can't have b...
No that's what you say the most important question is now - I'm not willing to address it here. You certainly didn't think so at the beginning of this...
No, he actually wasn't. He told them they're headed for hell. You know, there's a reason the Nazis loved Nietzsche, but didn't like Christianity so mu...
That's not what you said the first time. So what happened, did you change your mind, or? I do believe that Kim Jong Un is evil and should at one point...
Of course you fight evil with force, what do you think?! Are you crazy? You'll sit around "loving" the burglar who is killing your wife, or grab the s...
>:O >:O >:O And this passage: "What belongs to greatness. Who will attain anything great if he does not find in himself the strength and the will to i...
Now you should consider answering those points/questions I referred to above, as they are actually directed at the discussion we were having, and are ...
Yes, I am aware of that. I haven't answered them because they bring up points which are not relevant to the discussion we were having. I can address, ...
I don't know, but you keep raising questions upon questions (which have little to do with one another), and then when I answer a bunch of them, you al...
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