It is hardly irrational to base a political philosophy on fundamental ontological fact, truth. Such political philosophy is immoral by the standards of...
Well, List Members, not much in the way of reading lately. So I will do a bit more to keep the discussion going. Strauss writes: "What is dimly perceived and...
... I found Strauss's reference to "grasp clearly the nearest"/ "the around us" familiar - almost like his introduction to C&M with its emphasis on common ...
Brett Dutton
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Aug 5, 2002 7:41 am
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Dear List Members: As we are not moving, I will do some more. Strauss writes: "According to the preface to _Beyond Good and Evil_ Plato's fundamental error was...
... fundamental ... itself." ... such." ... _the_ ... calls ... infinite, ... to be ... the Good ... the ... _the_ ... philosophical ... beyond all ... of ... ...
Harveycmd writes: [snip] ... Yes, that is a very good point to make. However, the nihilism is the realization that the supersensible world of Plato is not. In...
... words, ... politics with ... notion of ... Nietzsche is ... nihilism that ... politics, ... with the ... In Plato's ... whatever ... that is ... a thing ...
Harveycmd writes: [snip] ... [snip] I re-read my post, and it was definitely not clear enough. Let me try again in a more conventional way. When private ethics...
Nietzsche is not concerned with the bourgeois as such; in fact, it is the moralizing response of the socialists to the bourgeois that Nietzsche finds the most...
... He is exposing what was known even by the Founders of the US and other modern thinkers here. Nietzsche is bringing forth nothing new here. ... However it...
... other ... This is very true; however, rather than respond with the "discovery" of certain inalienable rights granted to man by some metaphysical deity...
... to ... all ... why ... As a new reader of this list let me be so bold as to offer a comment on Strauss's contrast of Nietzsche and Kojeve. They seem to...
... comment ... represent ... shared ... Is the tyranny of the strong less preferrable to the tryanny of the weak? I would beg to differ on Nietzsche's...
... A very elegant rhetorical question, but isn't it a sophism? Tyrants become tyrants because they have the strength to do so and to maintain their tyranny....
... become ... their ... tyranny, ... tyranny of the ... Perhaps it is a kind of sophism, just as Socrates engaged in sophism with his questioning method, but...
Harveycmd writes: [snip] ... Perhaps you can give us an example of a tyranny of the weak. I can't think of any. It might be that all tyrannies are not life...
... can't think ... as well ... It is quite an exaggeration to say that Nietzsche's viewed the entire Western tradition as life negating. There are aspects of...
... Well, I still would like to have an example of the tyranny of the weak. As I said before, I can't think of an example. ... To reject Plato's metaphysics is...
Icastes wrote: To reject Plato's metaphysics is to reject the entire core of Plato's thought. Plato is not Plato any longer without the metaphysics....
... It is not Heideggerian at all. What is Plato without the Good, the ideas, the genera, the same, the other, without methexis, etc.? It would be nothing at...
... ideas, ... be nothing ... is no ... his head. ... things. Try ... without ... I will say this: Science has a practical and universal validity that is...
Harveycmd writes: [snip] ... Modern experimental science begins not with science, but with a political change. No matter how much of science has prepolitical...
Continuing along with Strauss: "_Beyond Good and Evil_ has the subtitle 'Prelude to a Philosophy of the future.' The book is mean to prepare, not indeed the...
... that is prepolitical. It can and does become in some ways political, but to say that science is an adjunct of politics is quite rediculous. I don't think...
... and ... physics, ... us, ... If science is in many ways an interpretation it does not necessarily negate the aspect of its prepolitical nature. Nietzsche...
... necessarily ... of ... force, ... Cox's ... I'm not convinced that the aphorism is compatible with the idea of science as objective(prepolitical) the...
Dear List Members: Continuing along with Strauss: "The book consists of nine chapters. The third chapter is devoted to religion. The heading of the fourth...
Dear List Members: You might be interested in this review of a new translation of BG&E. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews are usually about very minor scholars...
Is it fair to say that Nietzsche's acceptance of modern natural science is nihilistic? I say this because saying it is nihilistic implies he had some sort of...
Mark Gibson
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Sep 2, 2002 6:36 pm
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