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I didn't know that but it is an amazing story
logical positivism still sucks tho
not that we're original in that feeling, it's about as debunked as a philosophical strand can be
Who are your favourite philosophers?
logical positivism still sucks tho
not that we're original in that feeling, it's about as debunked as a philosophical strand can be
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There are some great reviews of him out there: "The section on onanism is especially relevant for understanding the argument of this book".
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I enjoyed this when you posted it.
What Does Spiritual Mean?
The spiritual step is to recognise (or imagine) that there isn't a thing and another thing interacting, there's only one thing, that is everything. That's what I mean by everything's made of the same stuff. It just doesn't feel like some grand revelation or something that fills me with awe or...
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Not personally, but you only have to mention Alain de Boton in my girlfriend's hearing to trigger her into a massive rant about him.
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Twilight of the Idols was my first, and the penguin edition I had even framed it as a "lightning tour" through his thought.
You get some of his thoughts on societal decadence starting with Socrates, calling Socrates ugly; denouncements of egalitarianism as mediocre (people leaning on each other; absence of the "pathos of distance" that arises between the great/strong and the weak); history of how reality was rendered more and more abstract until we lost track of it, death of whatever role God played. There was some critique of morality, but I don't think he gets into the moral world order. He just points out the hypocrisy in how, in order to assert a moral judgment, one presupposes that they are above the system enough to see it clearly.
I haven't touch Zarathustra yet, but there was an excerpt from it at the end of Twilight, "The Hammer Speaks", about being as hard as a diamond, as opposed to everyone else being coal, brittle.
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He's also sort of the ur-incel, isn't he?
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Aside from that I've only read Antichrist, which is largely about the moral world order, and Christianity being a toxic and degrading ideological force. Pity for the weak makes you weak, and thus the whole thing is engineered as a contagion of weakness, etc. I don't recall seeing anything about Dionysius here, but its strange because that is where I would have assumed he'd get into it.
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Totally, man. He proposed to Andreas Salome twice, I believe, and got rejected both times. And apparently Richard Wagner told Nietzsche's physician that his ailment/condition was from excessive masturbation.
I'm unclear about Nietzsche's take on women, but I'm inclined to believe he posits them as being, maybe, derived from different archetypes. Whether or not this difference brings about a superiority/inferiority relationship, I don't know.
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Yeah I've heard those three referred to as the primary figures in the "school of suspicion". Not sure how useful that is as a category though.
And yeah they do seem to launch discourses that collide and mingle into the post-structural crowd. I wonder if any of those guys would consider them as a kind of trio/triptych.
And yeah they do seem to launch discourses that collide and mingle into the post-structural crowd. I wonder if any of those guys would consider them as a kind of trio/triptych.
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Well I even heard some guy mention it in a Yale lecture
but I only got a few minutes into this one because it seem to be too reductive. Weber could arguably be the fourth fixture, which is probably what this guy would have you believe. He said Weber's challenge to the orthodoxy was more complex than Nietzsche, Freud and Marx. Quite an assertion.
but I only got a few minutes into this one because it seem to be too reductive. Weber could arguably be the fourth fixture, which is probably what this guy would have you believe. He said Weber's challenge to the orthodoxy was more complex than Nietzsche, Freud and Marx. Quite an assertion.
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That is, Nietzsche made us suspicious of morality, Marx of our economic reality, and Freud of our consciousness, I suppose.Anyway, thats what the Yale guy says.