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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Mark Gibson
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Sep 3, 2002 2:58 pm
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... He accepted a modern natural science of which he knew very little, and even less of what it is today. Nietzsche, for example, sought to find a scientific...
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Mark Gibson
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Sep 4, 2002 3:19 am
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Dear List Members: I expect that now that we are back into the academic year and everyone has leisure again after trapsing around the world during the summer...
Dear List Members: This post is only a continuation of my previous one, and is meant to be read along with what I have already posted. As a note: It is always...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: We can now turn to two aphorisms in _Beyond Good and Evil_ I-II that can be said to be devoted to religion (36-37)." We...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "The third chapter is entitled 'Das religöse Wesen'; it is not entitled 'Das Wesen der Religion,' one of the reasons for...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "Nietzsche's vindication of God is then atheistic, at least for the time being: the aphorism following that on the Old...
Dear List Members: I accidentally hit the send button rather than the save button. So you have received an unfinished posting. As soon as I finish it, I will...
Dear List Members: Sorry about the previous posting which was incomplete. Bad use of the mouse. Strauss continues: "Nietzsche's vindication of God is then...
I would like to pause and reconsider this section. I have numbered Strauss's comments in order to try to make clear what I am wondering about. 1. "This does...
... Nietzsche's quarrel is with both Platonic metaphysics and Christianity at the same time. The Platonic metaphysics is contrary to the great tradition of...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "Nietzsche provisionally illustrates his suggestion of an atheistic or, if you wish, non-theistic religosity by the...
... wondering ... God, ... existence ... being." ... belief ... here ... of ... be ... he ... that ... Apparently, ... it ... death ... above ... Christianity...
Gil Scott writes: [snip] ... Au contraire! In fact, it is the exactly opposite. You have considered the obliteration of the real and apparent world in Twilight...
Dear List Members: These paragraphs, 10-14 are some of the most remarkable ones anywhere in Strauss, because it is exceptionally rare to have Strauss discuss...
... Au contraire! In fact, it is the exactly opposite. You have considered the obliteration of the real and apparent world in Twilight of the Idols carefully...
Gil Scott writes: [snip] ... There is a partisanship behind the effort to make Nietzsche = the total silence of a Beckett nihilist. ... No. You ought to look...
Dear List Members: Strauss's explicit discussion of god beginning in graph 10 reaches its goal in this paragraph. It must be remembered that the subject is...
Dear List Members: Strauss writes: "There is an important ingredient, not to say nerve, of Nietzsche's 'theology' of which I have not spoken and shall not...
... I cannot reply to all your points at once. I am sure many of them wree very sound but I do not have a firm enough grasp of them yet to reply. However I...
Mark Gibson
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Sep 22, 2002 3:20 pm
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... I believe that Mr. Gibson already has posted this message before, to which I gave a reply. Perhaps you hit the send button on the wrong message... Best...
Dear List Members: Suddenly, Strauss leaves the discussion of what god is and religion. "It is possible but not likely that the 'Sayings and Interludes' of...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "The fifth chapter--the central chapter-- is the only one whose heading ('Toward the natural history of morality') refers...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "In the introductory aphorism (186) Nietzsche speaks of the desideratum of a natural history of morality in a manner...
Dear List Members: Having laid out the first half of his argument, Strauss characteristically becomes much more dense as he deduces from what he has...
... moderns, although in Nietzschean terms they are basically the same insofar as all previous philosophy had failed to understand that their philosophy was...
... The jump to Kant is prepared in the previous paragraph. That morality has a basis in reason is very much a Kantian thing, as morality in the ancient world...
Icastes ... has a basis in reason is very much a Kantian thing, as morality in the ancient world has a basis both in nature and in a god among some people. I...
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