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I think Nietzsche is overrated. There's more videos on him than any other thinker on many channels. Perhaps he's an attractive thinker because he's so...

There's a Mistake in my above piece . It as Nietzsche's sister who passed his writings to the Nazis.

I Know quite a lot about Nietzsche. I have studied his philosophy at Degree level and I know for sure that he despised Christianity and all it's value...

I still think it makes perfect sense to talk about the individual. The term is used widely in public debate, as well as academia. And it makes perfect...

What do you mean by "the individual is a social creation"? In most philosophy books I've read about existentialists, Nietzsche is listed amongst them....

Thanks for your reply to my blog but I'm afraid I couldn't understand everything you were saying. I think there is a grain of truth in Nietzsche's att...

How does one distinguish proper philosophy from just a whole lot of ideas. There must be a right and a wrong way of doing philosophy. A series of Idea...

In my opinion compassion which is at the heart of Christian and Buddhist ethics is what brings people together, without it the world would be a very c...

Perhaps one reason for Nietzsche's popularity is his very provocative and radical ideas , but that doesn't make him a wise thinker. Some philosophers ...

So are you saying that if I feel pity watching my wife dying from cancer and feel compassion for her that's a weakness, it's not good way to feel. Wha...

sometimes I wonder why Nietzsche is so popular, so influential , is it because he's so provocative, radical, and easily misinterpreted. He seems to be...

Thanks Erik for your reply. Some very good points there. But I still think there's a huge gulf between the teachings of Jesus and the kind of misogyni...

Perhaps Nietzsche's ferocious attack on Christianity was his reaction against the puritanical Victorian Church of his time which was anti semitic, mis...

Nietzsche died before the Nazis came into existence. In relation to My point which I made earlier Nietzsche's target for attack is Christianity becaus...

Aristotle's Ethics which is one of the most influential in western thought is not otherwordly, it is secular and it has experienced a revival in the 2...

We are part animal but we are also human with consciousness and intellect which differs us from the rest of the animal kingdom. We are the only specie...

I didn't finish . In all religions including paganism there is a belief in another world of spirits. It derives from the human instinct to find meanin...

Although it's true Nazism doesn't appeal to an otherworld that's because it's a political movement. However Hitler was like a Messiah figure for his f...

Martin Luther King and Ghandi. All these people were battling against oppression but did not resent their oppressors. The main platform on which the N...

Religious moral values are not just about binding a group they are to offer an ethical code for living. The reason I think Stoicism is a better altern...

For thousands of years millions of people in all civilizations have found belief in God and religion satisfied a natural spirit need that human beings...

I would disagree that Freud " has been supplanted" . The fact is that he is regarded as an intellectual giant of the 20th century and has had an enorm...

I'm asking about the ancient Stoics such as Marcus Aurelius who seem to have become very popular in recent decades judging by the number of books and ...

By the way your advice looks very good. Would you like me to send a brief synopsis as you mentioned of the book. Yes I've never written a book before ...

Hi thanks for your suggestions. What do you think about the following as a title. "Why Philosophy Matters. The relevance of Philosophy for ordinary Li...

Hi Thanks for your helpful comments. That's very interesting. I had doubted myself if it was a good title. Do you think it would be better to write ab...