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Scripture has been used to weaponize power, maybe as often as it has been used to sooth and heal a broken soul. In the Christian tradition, patriarchy, for example, has asserted and abused power consistently, perhaps as early as the listing of who was a disciple (only males in the auth...
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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...
I will speak of the masses, intellectuals, and elites, in order to compare and contrast Nietzsche, Hoffer, and other writers who might be relevant, then drawing my most important conclusion about what intellectuals do wrong that alienates them from guys like Hoffer, who might be taken as exem...
Galileo, Gutenberg, Franklin and Watt were not mere polymaths. They were polymaths who did something more powerful than putting specialists together in a room. They put ideas together in a mind. On this view, specialization may be necessary to implement a solution but is insufficient for ...
One important theme Musil also takes up is the Nietzschean idea of the dichotomy between Apollo and Dionysus. This can be seen in the "two worlds" (p 45) in which light is contrasted with dark, the controlled and disciplined intellect with more spontaneous sensuality. Young Torless is an ...
Emerson's "Over-Soul" would be reinterpreted by Friedrich Nietzsche as the Übermensch, which translators often misleadingly render in English as "Superman." "At this time of foreboding about the future of Western culture, it is crucial to identify and preserve our finest artifacts. Canons ...
He was compared by obsequious flatterers to the Black Prince, to Alcibiades, to the young Caesar. To many he seemed Nietzsche's Overman revealed. He was big and blond and virile, and splendidly non-moral. The first great feat that startled Europe, and almost brought about a new Trojan ...