Of course, but the sharp criticism against the Jews is at the heart of his writings, while praises are generally ambiguous and circumstantial. I don't...
My sentence referred to someone's Darwinian interpretation of the distinction between Nietzsche's "two races": the servants and the lords. I tried to ...
Your comment does not clarify the author of the phrase about culture we were commenting on -either by Nietzsche or yours-, nor Nietzsche's position on...
But I was referring to a phrase of yours, not Nietzsche's. If the phrase you were quoting is Nietzsche's, you should show the quote. So the misunderst...
No. He was parodying Chernishevsky, a positivist. (See my previous comment). He was not crazy. Dostoevsky himself speaks of him as a kind and quiet ma...
At the time when Dostoevsky wrote Notes from the Underground (1864) - and for the rest of his life too - he opposed Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky,...
Speaking of Dostoevsky, the "abstract system" that claims to have an exact answer for "everything in this world" is science. What abstract systems tha...
"The crowd of triumphant Jews and kikes that has thrown itself on Russia (...) to suck the lifeblood of the liberated but hopelessly indebted peasantr...
If science is neutral with respect to religion, it is not understood why they have crashed so often in history. Science would be neutral with respect ...
I don't know of any scientist who links quantum mechanics with religion. There are pseudoscientists, New Age mystics and theologians who try. To say t...
It is one thing to defend science and another to believe that science explains everything and that there is no more rationality than science. This is ...
Also in the paragraphs where he accuses the Jews for their demonic power of hatred towards the Russians in particular and Humanity in general? Do you ...
I would like to know on what data you base this statement. My experience is the opposite. At the beginning of the 19th century theodicy was omnipotent...
The problem is different for me: How can a rational man enjoy the writings of a fanatical believer in God and the Czar, such as Dostoevsky? Can aesthe...
See: . "Worse than a plague." You can see here the religious conservatives' hatred of science and reason. Science is the devil, without nuance. Don't ...
"Better" in what sense? Epistemological, moral...? Dostoevsky's epistemology is very weak. His political theology is a disaster. His ( relatively ) be...
Yes, Dostoevsky is wrong. The senses do not contradict logic, but some abuses of logic do. In opposing Chernyshevsky's narrow positivism he identifies...
No. Pre-reflective consciousness is the "natural" state of human beings. Sartre's work is an anthropology. It's difficult to extrapolate it to animals...
I rectify: what is present to the pre-reflexive consciousness is temporality, not time. The past and the future are two aspects of being-for-itself. P...
Sartre: Consciousness, that is to say, the project of pour-soi. Heidegger: Being, which is something like God with a different name. In my opinion. I ...
At the origin: Camus was a son of workers in gradual ascent towards the bourgeois who said he did not want to be, and Sartre continually debated himse...
As you wish. I did a work on the novel and I read it a few times. But I'd have to find an English version to make quotations. Or translate them my way...
Background: Against rationalism and science. In behalf of irrational belief in Christ. "If the truth really did exclude Christ, I should prefer to sta...
I find also that this discussion is highly productive. In respect your first battery of questions my answer is hesitant. I need to read again Sartre's...
Heidegger's first reaction to Being and Nothingness was that Sartre was the philosopher who have understood his theory the most. After that, he possib...
I read Hume directly, which doesn't mean I always understand him. Sometimes I get stuck. Other times I read a different interpretation than I do. Many...
Not so much. At a certain level quantum mechanics becomes a topic of interpretation and discussions begin. Which are the interesting thing, in my opin...
Superiority in life potential. I don't think Nietzsche gave a narrow definition of what he meant by that. You have to look here and there. Superiority...
I confess I didn't understand the alternative. For Nietzsche, lordship and servitude are innate characteristics of men. They cannot be changed or modi...
How do you know it's the style's fault if you haven't understood it? Maybe what Hume says is stupid. It's the same for me with quantum mechanics. I do...
If you're associating Nietzsche with the mafia, you've certainly got it wrong. But the insecurity isn't in Nietzsche, it's in your reading. Just becau...
Some important clarifications: Strong and weak are not distributed equally among men and nations. There are weak men and strong men, to the extent tha...
Sartre addresses the problem especially in L'être et le néant, Part II, Chapter II, Section III. For me, it is one of the most difficult to understand...
In the context of your commentary "a man of Culture" meant what is normally understood. That is: a man who knows and possibly practices arts, humaniti...
Hans Frank, the Nazi Governor-General of Poland, passionately played Chopin's Polonaises while exterminating Poles, especially Jews. I don't think the...
Sartre: The subject cannot be conscious of himself as an object, because he is no such thing. The subject is freedom. One is only an object for anothe...
"Natural selection" is not a Nietzschean concept. The Darwinian concept refers to populations; the Nietzschean concept of instinct refers to individua...
This is a paragraph from chapter V of "Beyond Good and Evil", a text that is essential to understand Nietzsche. Summarizing Nietzsche in one paragraph...
This is true. But metaphor is the core of literary expression and Nietzsche was as much a poet as a philosopher. This makes reading him exciting, some...
Leslie Forster Stevenson: Seven Theories of Human Nature, Oxford University Press. This is my most obvious option. There are many editions. More of a ...
Ignorance may be due to epistemological limitations or ontological differences. When the ignorance is deep -as in the case of the mind-brain relation-...
Nietzsche admired the Greeks for the harmony between the Apollonian and the Dionysian. This is logical because the Dionysian means destruction. It is ...
The problem of the relationship between body (objective) and mind (subjective) does not authorize a strict dualism. The mind is not independent of the...
Actually, it' depends on the lobbies, the advertisers and the owners. The same goes for politicians. The unique problem of the media is how to sell th...
Let's say you present yourself as an atheist as a tactic to keep the flies off. But you present yourself as an agnostic when you're in the mood to dis...
I don't see why it's any easier. On the contrary. Thomas Huxley invented the term agnostic because he was tired of being mistaken for an atheist. He h...
I'm not sure what you're not sure of. If my tone is dismissive, it is not my intention. Maybe my English sounds dry because it's not good. I am sorry,...
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