Is this thread a sort of public reply to our discussion since you quote from basically one book, plus one quote from a work you Said you have never ev...
"So, what do you care about?" What I meant was that people who claim to Care about truth often just care about caring about truth, or about talking ab...
Humanity is a silly mess. Literally, who cares about truth? Philosophers just like philosophizing and it is its own reward just as a tennis player lik...
"N. misunderstood Plato's view of rationality, so he was criticising a strawman. What N. called the Dionysian element was always a part of Plato's vie...
I can only say right now that I disagree. 1.It isnt rational, rather it is hinted in things such as beauty, love etc. 2. It depends on what you mean b...
The Socratic method and dialectic found in Plato has a serious flaw, a sickness within it: It is mainly concerned with looking at life. It is opposed ...
Because now is all that is, and one of the reason of all faults is man's inability to be now and his inability to live Now is a main reason why he fee...
. "This is effectively what Plato is saying - he identifies three different faculties of the soul/body and he investigates how they can be brought in ...
"This is more controversial. BUT! "Progression" is only a temporal matter belonging to this world, and this life" Sure. But the next life is unimporta...
I forgot these twi which were most fundamental in the part from Blake I quoted. They follow immediately from the one you found to be platonic: 2. Ener...
I dont agree. He clearly makes a distinction, unless you try to turn him in to a Christian, while in reality he was closer in many Ways to the thought...
Body and soul are one. There is no seperation as in Plato. I prefer the view of Walt Whitman on this: "Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physi...
"lol - I have quite the opposite impression. The Greeks, including Plato, Socrates and Aristotle were lovers of the body" Aristotle I agree, and he is...
Sure. Nietzsche wasn't infallible either :P Never Said anything else. But he is far more misunderstood and mistreated by those who do not appreciate h...
Plato wasnt infallible. He was human, and it is pretty obvious when reading him. His worshiping of distinctions between what is and what becomes but r...
"what does the statement "life is will to power" mean, and how do we know it's true? Why do you think it's true? What reasons do you have to believe i...
It is hard for me who is a Classical pianist to just name 5 pieces. But I will give it a try : 1. Beethoven's String Quartet in A minor Opus 132, espe...
"Why is life will to power?" I am not sure I would go as far as Nietzsche even though I find his ideas very interesting. It is hard to answer "why". W...
"Yes, too often people assume that pleasure is the highest good, as apparently the OP did, and so are really hedonists or sensualists, whether they re...
"Okay, but is there ONLY will to power behind every philosophy & theology?" It depends in how one views will to power I think. If you ask Nietzsche he...
I agree very much with your example of what is to be considered false chastity. Though I believe, inspired by Nietzsche, that People try to display po...
This is very much one of the things I have been trying to say. Nietzsche is in other words extremely misunderstood. As he himself said, he found there...
"Does that mean he's a theist now?" No not necessarily, if my memory serves me correctly he wrote it before losing faith but I might be wrong about th...
"The doctrine of participation in Being has been quite essential to the Thomist tradition. And it shows through art as well, for example in Tolkien's ...
"Okay, but aren't the two identical, or in fact, creation being higher than salvation? For man in his primordial state, before the Fall, was created i...
"Well I can't instantly read that book, so that's why I'm relying on this conversation. In the Meaning of the Creative Act, it seems that Berdyaev, to...
"Someone cannot be a Christian and encourage adultery and sin like Blake. That sort of double standard just does not work - a good tree does not produ...
And here is a quote from Berdyaev that I agree with: “Kant is a profoundly Christian thinker, more so than Thomas Aquinas,” In Berdyaev's work Destiny...
"That wasn't my impression at all" Lol then you havent read or understood Berdyaev either. He sometimes even referred to himself as a "Nietzschean-Chr...
I am not an enemy of morality in itself. I am against the completely moral outlook on existence and of the universe, as if life is a moral problem and...
To me, your worship of the concepts "Righteousness" and "morality" sounds too lawful. Like the scribes sometimes. I dont mean to be rude when I say th...
Just to make my admiration of Nietzsche clear : How a christian that admires Dostoevsky and Kiekegaard for example (which I do too), can for example p...
I need to sleep now but let me just comment on the quotes of Chesterton. I agree that Chesterton, though certainly not on the level of Nietzsche, was ...
, "'more good than good and evil,' or, 'more evil than good and evil.'" Nietzsche Btw rejected Darwin's understanding of evolution. He called it shall...
Chesterton is right that Nietzsche as a person was quite weak. Physicallt. So? Another proof Chesterton didnt understand him. Nietzsche was an outside...
Russell, who didnt understand not only Nietzsche, but also not Augustine, Kant, Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer, and christianity in its totality, is not...
This says christianity: If man is sinful through and through, then he ought only to hate himself. Fundamentally, he would have to treat his fellow men...
It is very difficult to understand Nietzsche; he is so subtle, so deep, and so profound. It is beyond the reach of any idiotananda. Beyond the reach o...
It is good that God has been discarded. Now man has to take his life in his own hands. And the beauty is, if you become responsible, responsible for y...
As You know, Zarathustra is entrusted by Nietzsche with the task of conveying the news of God’s death to the world. As he starts on his journey he mee...
In order to try to make You understand now, after you apparently have read Nietzsche, I would be forced to write a book in order to even hope you woul...
That doesn't speak to your advantage. So You are a philosopher? Self-proclaimed or professional? Name these philosophers that are your friends. I am s...
Well. I don't care what you think. But I don't understand what you do on a philosophy forum. You give the impression of someone who either lies and sa...
Hah. Well it is obvious you find Nietzsche either offensive or someone you simply dont understand. You dont understand the depth in "Eternity in a mom...
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