Nietzsche said a lot of insightful things, despite his many other failings. Descartes had no insight apart from quibbling about evil demons and incohe...
In real politics, what guarantees that the winner will be your ally if you back them? Once they have power in their hands, they could just as well tur...
Democracy - that corrupt form of government that sentenced even Socrates to death? :D As far as I'm concerned, I don't care about democracy at all. It...
No when one of your companies declares bankruptcy then both you and your creditors have lost. It means that the company borrowed money, invested it in...
Then how would you suggest they go around helping people? Isn't social organisation - which takes both money and influence - the place where the great...
>:O It's an expression. Of course you win some and you lose some but that's not all. Even your losses should merely be capital invested such that you ...
I thought he just told them there's winners and losers (which by the way is true). Regardless - what else did you expect? Do you expect the advice to ...
Do you really think he has an unbalanced personality? >:O See, I would never identify someone like Trump as suffering of mental illness. I simply woul...
Congratulations @"csalisbury"! (Y) Yes the shame idea was indeed quite intriguing and good. However, you never took me up on it afterwards, but my ink...
But what if someone were to need money, status, power and so forth in order to be able to better help his society? After all, the service we can rende...
That's not my experience with such people. Generally I've found that such people are usually quite arrogant and cold - some of them, a few from those ...
Good, so have you explained to yourself why I responded the way I did to you? Have you taken the ques as they are, or have you rationalised them to sa...
Excellent piece of writing! It reminded me of it! Alas BC, the point I made seems to have been lost on Wosret - both normal and average and great have...
Oh isn't that funny? Where have I actually said that? In fact, I've said quite the contrary, but people still think they've read what they want to hav...
To be honest, I've only done that because your post suggested that great people are fucked up and the normal and average are better. That said, I thin...
I don't see it this way. All great people see themselves as great - it simply cannot be otherwise, they would never be great if they don't first of al...
Okay, suppose I gain political power by murdering my political enemies and decimating (physically) the opposition. I currently control directly, or th...
Sure, but most who do feign have been in love before and know what it's like. Hence they can feign it - they have first-person knowledge of it. Sure, ...
No but I'm saying that you will fail worldly, guaranteed, if you are crooked. If you stick to your principles and play your cards as well as it's poss...
Yes of course. But I'm saying that the way to gain it, is precisely and paradoxically not to be concerned with it. I don't think so - most politicians...
Sure, so? Virtue is still the safest bet, the most likely one to win. If not even virtue succeeds, then certainly nothing, not even crookedness, will ...
Absolutely, because a priori, the probability of remembrance is always greater if you are authentically great. You simply played the best cards you co...
Sure, but then there's a lot of ways that would qualify as "worldly failure" so to name all of them entails being broad. Family and friends probably. ...
Ok, sure. "Fail in the world" means failure amongst worldly matters, such as not being able to procure food for oneself, being disregarded by one's fe...
Alright, because to me some of these traits sound contradictory. For example - inability to plan for the future + narrowing of attention don't go well...
Okay, but why shouldn't a Stoic be concerned about money for example? I agree such a concern shouldn't overpower their concern for virtuous living, bu...
That's such a bait and switch tactic. So first you link me to the forbes article which suggests: And then you link me to the article which talks about...
No, I'm making the point that what is understood by "psychopathy" there isn't that. It's actually mental strength, but it's painted as mental weakness...
I agree that Fyodor is much like a psychopath, in that he has no degree of self-control or restraint. Forget that he feels no empathy for others - but...
Indeed - but that's still mental strength. Hitler is mentally strong and sane. So is Ghandi. But one is morally evil, and the other one is morally goo...
Yes, but this single-mindedness certainly transforms and shows itself in the world, in worldly terms. I am arguing for what I have told you I'm arguin...
Why do you think so? To me the story is obviously about the hypocrisy of the Church, not about how they set an impossible standard. And most mankind i...
Should we not move the book discussion to a separate thread? I'd want to join in, but I'm not sure if we should clutter this thread. What do you think...
And tell me unenlightened, if Socrates had chosen to run away instead of accept death, would his principles have survived? But it is an earthly succes...
Are you sure? Seneca was the richest man in Rome. I'd say that rather than indifferent to money, they should be indifferent to the loss of money. If h...
Ok, no problem! If it sounds like chest beating bullshit, then I surely deserve to know what you mean by that, before I shall tackle your other concer...
But do you think personal survival always makes sense? What if I die, and then my entire tribe gets to become a great kingdom that will last for 400 y...
He who wants something from another has to accept the conditions on which they'll be given no? :P But the reason why I want you to go first is because...
Indeed - but this only tells us that the sane man was also mentally strong, and sufficiently dangerous to the established order that there really was ...
I don't think so. Jesus died, like Socrates, on purpose. Some things are worth dying for, because when you die for them you make a point. And regardle...
This is an interesting point. Pain and pleasure are somewhat close as feelings from a phenomenological standpoint. The distinction doesn't appear to m...
Yes BUT - take the cockroach. It is a species of insect that has evolved very little, if at all, in the past 300 million years. It is very adaptable, ...
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