Friedrich Nietzsche observed, “Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” Even what we believe we see with our own eyes is made up from memory. When referring to blind spots in our vision that we do not notice, much of what you...
Nietzsche and active nihilism: why it's good to be a nihilist This talk considers the origins of the notion of nihilism as a philosophical problem and position, in relation to Friedrich Nietzsche's highly contentious claims that 'God is dead' and 'we have killed him.'The notion of nihilism...
Thus, he becomes an “active nihilist”, the type of new man who will be at the forefront of what Nietzsche calls the “transvaluation of values” and will construct his identity all by himself in a process that is personal as well as aesthetic. Hibbs summarizes the development of noir in...
Was Nietzsche Jewish? Was Boccaccio a humanist? Did Karl Jaspers believe in transcendentalism? Was Oscar Wilde a nihilist? Were Greek philosophers in contact with Eastern philosophy? Did Cicero study stoicism? Was Petrarch philosphical? Was Erasmus alive during the Renaissance? Was Petrarch part of ...