you're just playing the purist to satisfy an agenda. — ZzzoneiroCosm
I think his emphasis on values is still relevant. — Xtrix
The strong for Nietzsche overcomes itself , displaces itself , transforms itself. Its strength is in reinvention, not holding onto some self-constant value system — Joshs
you are but my playthings — Banno
Energy is Eternal Delight. — William Blake
That's your adolescent game, not mine. — ZzzoneiroCosm
You even had to borrow your insults from me. — Banno
Pedophiles, rapists, murderers. They’re a set of human beings. They seem the botched and weak to me. Doesn’t seem evil to help them perish. — Xtrix
Does 'help them perish' mean kill them? Or do we bathe in the warmth of a responsibility free figurative reading? :wink: — Tom Storm
It's a question of evolution: from ape to man to Superman. — ZzzoneiroCosm
↪Banno Arguing about the true meaning of Nietzsche often seems like arguments over the meaning of Bible versus. — Tom Storm
Indeed; spouting delusive mistruths. — Banno
It seems medieval. — Tom Storm
I was thinking strictly of the passage quoted in the OP. An all-inclusive conception of Nietzsche's oeuvre is beyond my capacity and interest.Nietzsche's perspective — Agent Smith
In moving 'beyond good and evil' he devolves to feudal ethics, to serfs, feigned nobility, despotism. A great leap backwards. — Banno
Most interesting. — Ms. Marple
It's Nietzsche's idea!, taken to its logical concclusion. — Agent Smith
A Nietzschean logic is a manybranching monstrosity. Grotesque poison Yggdrasil - for the healing of the nations?!... — ZzzoneiroCosm
On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. — John the Revelator
The strong for Nietzsche overcomes itself , displaces itself , transforms itself. Its strength is in reinvention, not holding onto some self-constant value system
— Joshs
Into what, exactly? With the abolition of the celestial hierarchy there's nothing to be transformed into, except maybe a more intelligent (or should we say 'craftier') ape. — Wayfarer
we can steal fire from these Gods. — karl stone
Do you find Kant or Wittgenstein more easily deciphered? — Hanover
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