when natural selection creates a pure leader race, have no use for these institutions? — god must be atheist
Basically a person without Culture, inner or outer, is a weak and dangerous person — I like sushi
Let's not exaggerate. A discreet knowledge of Greek culture can help to understand The Birth of Tragedy. Especially the things that Nietzsche invented about the Greeks. But it's not essential. You can understand Nietzsche pretty well by himself. His philosophy was very personal.Of you’re really interested in Neitzsche start at the start (The Birth of Tragedy). The problem is you’ll quickly find that you’ll need to learn a good amount about Plato (views on Art and society) and Aristotle — I like sushi
You made my point for me ... ? If you think slaughtering people to Chopin is a sign of ‘Culture’ — I like sushi
the Nietzschean concept of instinct refers to individuals. It is more the triumph of the will of power than a biological mechanism. — David Mo
Then you take the guy out to the desert and wack him and bury him. — Antidote
It is a beautiful woven fabric of logic inconsistency and twisting words that leaves the reader in a continual state of uncertainty about what the hect he is really trying to get at. — Antidote
That's outdated. Now you first bury the person, then defeat his arguments, then whack him, and finally dig a hole. — god must be atheist
Priceless, now that explains why we never leave the desert anymore. — Antidote
I don't know how this theory holds up today, but I think that's how he saw it anyway. — ChatteringMonkey
He is not a nihilist, as many claim; he is more an organizer, an elitist, a classifier, and solution-searcher — god must be atheist
In some ways, you got to hand it to them given what they had, they tried their best. — Antidote
the Leaders and the Weaks — god must be atheist
It is a beautiful woven fabric of logic inconsistency and twisting words that leaves the reader in a continual state of uncertainty about what the hect he is really trying to get at. — Antidote
you get so angry due entirely to his style, not content. — god must be atheist
I confess I didn't understand the alternative.in this scenario the individuals keep their lordlike and sheeplike qualities fully; or else is the picture better described as a genetic or genetic-like mixing within the individual's response system yielding differing magnitudes of lordlike qualities of behaviour as one measures it from individual to individual. — god must be atheist
How do you know it's the style's fault if you haven't understood it? Maybe what Hume says is stupid. — David Mo
Genetics was alien to Nietzsche's thinking. I don't know how the chromosomes fit into this. — David Mo
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