Philosophical Speculations

Based on the excerpt, that article is not even worth consideration. If the book review is that ludicrous on its face, I can't imagine how ludicrous the book itself may be. I also wonder if you are aware of the vast scholarship that has been done debunking the alleged Nazi-Nietzsche connection, invo...

OK so we are back to lazy character assassinations, are we? Then I'll take that to mean you concede my argument and call it a night. I haven't seen much of an argument to which I could concede. You still haven't shown how Nietzsche's epistemological stance (truths are provisional) is consistent wit...

What is "weak" and "botched" are not individual physical bodies of human beings, as no doubt it is interpreted by most casual commentators, but the living aspects of our being which prevent us from realizing the above telos. Whilst the weak and the botched does refer to 'living ...

..deeply rooted psychological i.e. metaphysical realities.. These 'metaphysical realities' sound like more 'truths', which are actually the product of social and historical circumstances. Also, sorry, I think I misread your response before the last one. I can see now that when you said "I don'...

I don't think it is possible, actually. If you accept that ethical individualism is a product of social and historical circumstances, then your also obliged to accept that a change in social and historical circumstances could produce a different type of individualism. This could be a form of indivi...

Beyond that, I really don't think Nietszche's disdain for the Marxist framework could get any more clear than it does in Zarathustra; Nietzsche was also a racist, misogynist and proto-fascist so I certainly don't agree with everything he writes. Great thinkers can be wrong about many things. Same g...

Good reviews Jim. One problem I have with Reber's book is that he frames his approach as "reductionist", which I would take as meaning that, in principle, an explanation of all movements of an organism could be made at the level of physical and chemical processes. This seems to me to not l...

Beyond that, I really don't think Nietszche's disdain for the Marxist framework could get any more clear than it does in Zarathustra; Nietzsche was also a racist, misogynist and proto-fascist so I certainly don't agree with everything he writes. Great thinkers can be wrong about many things. Same g...

Thanks for the responses Bernardo. Food for thought next time I donate blood at the blood bank

Well there are many readings of Nietzsche I suppose, but his perspectivism is not the same as relativism, and the truth of living is not the same as life being eternally unchanging. Section 24 of essay three of the Genealogy of morals on the "will to truth" and the ascetic ideal is apposit...