Galileo, The Bible, and Friedrich Nietzsche
I’m not intending to have this blog post come to a coherent conclusion because what I’m currently typing is really just a stream of consciousness… After reading Kurt’s essay on Galileo, it got me thinking about how objective is the Bible if it were considered a gateway to understanding the knowledge of truth, as well […]
De Beauvoir, Nietzsche and the Boundary
In this blog post I will often refer to the present. In some cases the present means today and some it means the 1900’s or the 1800’s. For the most part I agree with Simone de Beauvoir, The Middle Sex, especially with what she writes in the introduction. Women are and have been oppressed by men […]
Freud, Civilization and its Discontents
Christina Hendricks’ lecture on this text for the Repetition Compulsion theme, January 2015.
Twilight Of The Idols
This one was a struggle for me to get through. A lot of the text seemed disorganized, vague, and sometimes even random. Although some of this confusion was likely due to the many historical and philosophical references made that I had difficulty understanding despite the footnotes, which a reader of Nietzsche’s time would probably grasp […]
Nietzsche
Reading this text reminded me a lot of the beginning of first term – a deceptively small book filled with unfamiliar phrases laid out in a seemingly order-less fashion. In any case, I feel nervous writing this blog post, because I’m not sure if I really understand most of this text, let alone have opinions about it. However, after the lecture today, I feel much less unprepared to write. In the interest of not appearing as confused as I actually am, I’m going to talk about some of the aphorisms that…read more
Simply Having an Error and Illusion-filled Christmastime
Merry Brain-diseases-of-sickly-web-spinners-mas everybody, and a happy New Year! Goodness, this book is making me feel so festive.
Neeche takes a pretty highbrow stance in Twilight of the Idols, saying how many other ‘intellectuals’ are deluded. Yet considering his views on the ‘real world’ are to not over-analyze life and to basically take what you see at sensory face value, they aren’t very intellectual sounding. His version of progress, as shown in How the “True World” Finally Became a Fiction is also to abandon the delusions of celestial or intellectual grandeur that characterize Plato or Christianity. Nieeqcher does not want to elevate humanity or (in the case of Rousseau) necessarily regress it, which also does not seem very intellectual. If you’re going to be an Important Philosopher, at least say something exciting like everyone’s been living in a metaphorical cave!
Nicherr criticizes Socrates, but isn’t he essential doing what Socrates did? questioning values that most would contentedly leave unquestioned. If there is a difference to Socrates’ dialectic and what Neeziche is doing, I’d like to know what it is.
Netichee was also ahead of his time – though maybe not in regards to his views on women. It seems detrimental when discussing his philosophies to bring up his persistent misogyny, but I wonder why someone who says how “reality shows us a captivating treasury of types” (28) would tar all women with the same brush.
Arts One Ramblings
On the shelves stand monuments. They are not eternal. They are dead, all but the possibilities of resurrection. I think of Borges. I think of Bataille. I think of Blanchot. Today, in this city of rain and glass, we examine countless volumes under a neutral sky. We examine, we do not read. The sacred is […]
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Podcast: Beowulf and On the Genealogy of Morals
Discussion with Jill Fellows and Kevin McNeilly
The Genealogy of Morals
I’ve noticed an unsurprising trend on the blog posts for this book. It appears as though members of the class (including myself) do not take fondly to Nietzsche’s style of writing. I could write the entire post on how inconsiderate Nietzsche was in the delivery of his philosophical arguments and ideas. But I won’t do that, I’m sure […]
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Nietzsche
Nietzsche is definitely a tough read. It’s dense, ideas flying everywhere, and a sense of anti-everything pervades the three essays in “On the Genealogy of Morals”. His ideas of the anti-foundation, and the way his writing style is one which … Continue reading → Continue reading →