tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post2763566894675804777..comments2024-02-12T23:25:09.583-08:00Comments on Overweening Generalist: Thoughts On Nietzschemichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-46887530746691915262019-11-06T14:22:29.800-08:002019-11-06T14:22:29.800-08:00I think of myself as a Prousto-Coltranian Neoplato...I think of myself as a Prousto-Coltranian Neoplatonist.<br /><br />I struggled reading Nietsche until the age of thirty. I read him in a variety of sets and settings (at an Organ Stop Pizza and before a Vegas show, etc.), but I didn't finish any of his books. Then the week I turned thirty I read eight or nine of his books. I have deliberately stayed away from Nietzsche over the past 14 years, but I may dip into him when I turn 60.Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-14746115452850229372011-09-22T01:25:23.556-07:002011-09-22T01:25:23.556-07:00I see, on 21 September, some curious individual ar...I see, on 21 September, some curious individual arrived at my blog by typing - probably into Google search - "where does Nietzsche say whatever does not kill us makes us stronger?"<br /><br />I case anyone else wonders: see Twilight of the Idols, under the section "Maxims and Arrows," number 8, which in my Walter Kaufmann translation reads:<br /><br />"Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me makes me stronger."michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-52889340531176579712011-09-06T03:58:51.803-07:002011-09-06T03:58:51.803-07:00@alexis: Thanks, alexis. My thesis - and I guess I...@alexis: Thanks, alexis. My thesis - and I guess I had one - needs support, what with all that sagging around the edges.michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-78716939000216686592011-09-05T19:43:12.288-07:002011-09-05T19:43:12.288-07:00I support your thesisI support your thesisalexishttp://waltherpragerandphilosophy.blogspot.com/2011/08/nietzsche-child-in-man.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-9301717250394736222011-08-02T04:09:34.967-07:002011-08-02T04:09:34.967-07:00Okay, but what about Marxism and Darwininism. What...Okay, but what about Marxism and Darwininism. What about Freudianism and surrealism? What about feminism? Anarchism? Buddhism? Shirley Chisholm?michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-43248832976479995162011-08-02T01:09:45.090-07:002011-08-02T01:09:45.090-07:00I like broccoli but I do not like church.
I go to...I like broccoli but I do not like church.<br /><br />I go to church for architectural experience (I like baroque churches), or to listen to some organ music (I like the acoustics), or to cool off on a hot summer day when there is no air conditioning around.<br /><br />"Whatever you believe imprisons you." - RAW, "Illuminati Papers"ARW23https://www.blogger.com/profile/12640332269499504745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-25452963816541239282011-08-02T00:26:00.998-07:002011-08-02T00:26:00.998-07:00Ah! Apparently, just as you were addressing "...Ah! Apparently, just as you were addressing "God is dead," I added a brief bit on that. I hope you like it, ARW23. <br /><br />You and the four other people who still read this blog...michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-52267028246925770872011-08-02T00:12:13.524-07:002011-08-02T00:12:13.524-07:00Nietzsche got under my skin by questioning me as a...Nietzsche got under my skin by questioning me as a reader. His "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" really shook me first time I read it and now it travels with me wherever I go. I experience Nietzsche as a very powerful and poetic philosopher. Brilliant thinker! On a personal note, one of the easiest philosophers to connect with.<br /><br />And I agree with you: "Fred is not dead". God is dead but not Fred.ARW23https://www.blogger.com/profile/12640332269499504745noreply@blogger.com