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Is there substance? According to the bundle theory there isn't. Bundle theory says all things are just bundles or sums of their properties. The objection to this view comes from the substrate theory which asks: If there is no substance what is it that holds these properties together? There must be s...

An interesting comment relevant to our discussion here, written by someone competent regarding Nietzsche. From this blog I stumbled upon just now. http://jonrowe.blogspot.com/2006/07/foucault-pimple-on-nietzsches-ass.html ''Let us be, at least, intellectually honest. Nietzsche can be, and often is, ...

Here's an interesting post on true satanism and how it relates to Nietzsche, written by, it seems, an advanced satanist. ''A big misconception about Satanism is that Anton LaVey created it. This is not true. LaVey did popularize it in the sixties, but he did not create it. For me, Satanism begins wi...

Me, I see the purposelessness of the universe as Freedom. We create as much as we breathe. We create the way trees exude oxygen. We can take this existential void, and fill it with ourselves, our own meaning and purpose. This is Freedom, baby! and I am a cheerful nihilist who embraces the existenti...

. That has certainly how it has been for me. Nietzsche is something I subjected myself to, and I can't think of any writer or any philosopher (is he really a philosopher ...or a spiritualist of some strange sort?) who had as strong an effect. Nietzsche is very much regarded as a philosopher in his o...

Those things are not necessarily unique to a male-female romantic relationship, so, what's your point? I presented my point in the next paragraph. I don't see what point I made in the above quote. What is your point? [/quote] You said a male-female romantic relationship is unique and then proceeded...

Don't mean to complicate things, it is only that it is interesting to exchange ideas. I read a biography, written maybe 40 years ago, can't remember who it was, who pointed out that though Nietzsche was not driven by animus against Jews (and the effect of Jews on Europe, tied-in oddly with the Roma...

Even though the Romantic era seems all about heightened emotionality, suffering the 'world's pain' and young Werther's sorrows, it is at its core the first open rebellion against the enlightenment and age of reason with their focus on rationality and exclusion of any mysticism. The enlightenment fig...

Boyan, There is an important difference, and an important point to be made. You are obviously right that brutality and conquest did not begin with Nietzsche---it would have been absurd to have said such a thing. What I was rather trying to point out is that it is in Nietzsche that there occurs a ba...

Now what good would there be for a participant would of course depend on what he valued and wanted and whether that relationship met that. Certainly there is that. But that is the reason why one might want a relationship. Shall we suppose that a relationship is what you want it to be, and it is the...

But the strange and inescapable fact is that whenever our existing and generally accepted (and valued?) moralities are disregarded---and it has of course been 'mathematically proven' that they are false constructs, an anchor on our behavior---it never seems to bring a clean and 'innocent' well-bein...

I agree with you that a relationship is something unique. Let's see what at least some of the elements of a relationship, a male-female, romantic relationship if you will, might be. Physical attraction, emotional attachment, sexual relations, having things in common, in varying degrees of course, l...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbUYsQR3Mes

Chomsky vs Foucault - debate on human nature and its relation to justice.

I agree with you that a relationship is something unique. Let's see what at least some of the elements of a relationship, a male-female, romantic relationship if you will, might be. - Physical attraction, emotional attachment, sexual relations, having things in common, in varying degrees of course, ...

Boyan wrote: "...for the child too feels his game is his work, and his fairytale his truth." (I changed it a little bit). Looking at it from perhaps a radically different angle, one never intended by Nietzsche (?), what he writes about child's play is interestingly relevant to our identit...

And so, yes, I am interested in what you and anyone else has to say on the matter. Do you think that the various citations I have included in this thread are irrelevant to Nietzsche and to the 'problem of power'? (I see them as being very relevant, obviously.) On the issue of power, for what is wor...

Boyan wrote: His view on creativity was very superficial? Are you serious? Nietzsche seemed to place a little too much emphasis on creating art in a frenzy of passion. He glorified a psychological state that shouldn’t be glorified. Although, a state of temporary madness maybe a necessary step as ...

Why do you see passion as merely something to transcend? We are beings of both passion and reason. one of the more insidious faults of our culture, IMO, is the belief that reason and passion stand in opposition. This is what Nietzsche was talking about, in the Birth of tragedy for example. He thoug...

Neil, Creativity, virtue, greatness, etc, all had some irrational element to them in Nietzsche's view. Nietzsche’s view of creativity was very superficial though, it spawned the psychedelic movement in the US, with Jim Morrison and all the rest of it. Where did you get this from? Huxley's Doors o...

One interesting difference is how men and women fantasize about sex. Women fantasize about the sensual aspects of sex, how it would feel to kiss him, how it would feel for him to be close to her body, skin against skin, she imagines his face being close to hers, all her fantasies are based on sensu...

Boyan wrote: This is not the reason, except in China. This would be the last thing preventing intelligent people from reproducing. China, India, Indonesia, and most major cities in the western world are drastically overpopulated; don’t you think this is a reasonable factor for deciding not to hav...

Tooting horns comes in different magnitudes. Tell me how was I tooting my horn that it seemed as if I was an inventor of life changing things? I wasn't talking about you in particular. It was a general comment on what goes on at GF. Yeah, I thought so, but this thread was different, and had some po...

And how else do you propose to determine what constitutes the world being a 'better place'? Based on our own values, whether the majority agree or not. What is "better" is simply a value judgment. You may view peace as better and I may view war as better. is this comment meant to be an ar...

Philosophaster wrote:

Boyan wrote:Have you invented some world changing thing?

Nope.

But I don't generally go around tooting my own horn, either.

Tooting horns comes in different magnitudes. Tell me how was I tooting my horn that it seemed as if I was an inventor of life changing things?

While the majority sees having kids and a family as something they unquestionably wanted, more intelligent people see the drawbacks of it. Being independent all their lives, in thinking and acting, they see the negative effect the family can have on this independence and their lives (this refers to...