In other words, Nietzsche here rejects the idea of an 'artificial' unity of consciousness (or the self). This brings us to a car- dinal concept of dialectics, the 'unity of opposites'. Put simply, 'unity of opposites' defines a phenomenon by its internal oppositions: "All things come ...
Nihilism Before Nietzsche. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 1–32, 263–64. ISBN 978-0226293479. Caton argues persuasively that Descartes uses the phrase genius malignus for deus deceptor to avoid the charge of blasphemy. ^ Wells, John (2008). Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (3rd ed...
to the greed that has re-sculpted the world map. From the sloth that has led to the fall of empires, to the envy that has built them. From the lust that has led to the fall of politicians and
As Nietzsche (1908, p. 112) has pointed out, 'Justice is … reprisal and exchange upon the basis of an approximate equality of power'. The doctrine of formal equality ignores real world factors which shape inequalities in the bargaining power of state funders. The largest charities are over...
Gutenberg, for example, is accredited with the invention of movable type and the development of the printing press. Albert Einstein provided us with many of our current theories in physics and Leibniz with new mathematical concepts. Germans have played a significant role in developments in medicine...
Any system of philosophy, no matter how abstract, represents in means and purpose nothing more than an extremely cleverly developed combination of original nature sounds.[21]Hence arises the desire of a Schopenhauer or a Nietzsche for recognition and understanding, and the despair and bitterness of...
Counter-Enlightenment Piety versus Moralism. Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Defining Religion as the valence of conflicting human values.
(As a dementia præcox patient once said to me during his recovery: “To-day a 327thought suddenly thrust itself through me.”) This same idea is found again in Nietzsche in Zarathustra: The Magician Stretched out, shivering Like one half dead whose feet are warmed, Shaken alas! by ...
In §§354–355 ofThe Joyful Wisdom, Nietzsche (2010) presents his own philosophical techniqueas a culmination of a long development that began with the“denigrated and humiliated”mob;continued with the actor who has learned to command his instincts with other instincts; thenwith the“...
Accessed as Project Gutenberg e-book.Search in Google Scholar Pomerantz, Anita. 1984. Agreeing and disagreeing with assessments: Some features of preferred/dispreferred turn shapes. In J. Maxwell Atkinson & John Heritage (eds.), Structures of social action, 57–10. Cambridge: Cambridge University...