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Nietzsche

Wed= nesday, April 09, 2008

10:= 01 AM

  1. Preliminary:
    1. Historians thought he was a neo-Nazi or an anti-Semite.   His girlfiend was.  Took bits of his throw= n away garbage and arranges them to support this.  Rejects everyone, not just Judai= sm.
    2. Did a bit of composing= on the side.
    3. Key concepts of Nietzs= che
      1. Self overcoming
      2. Eternal recurrence
      3. Overman- offers the r= eader a challenge to become more than humans were before him.
      4. Deliberately makes his writing hard to understand.  Wants to be controversial.  Doesn= 't want to be understood.
    1. Characterized as a philosophical outlaw.  Attacks causality.
  2. Anti-system
    1. Thinks that those trying to make a structured world= are doing it out of fear of the knowledge that it isn't really stable or structured or orderly- attacks the 'metaphysics of the stable'.
    2. The world of being is = gone, and all that is left is the world of becoming.
  3. Life affirmation=
    1. Pure secularist- Wants to affirm this life, not some other world.
    2. Does not like Socrates= , as it has another world, and thus does not affirm this life.
  4. Critique of Western Civilization, including Platonism, Christianity, and substance metaphysics.
  5. The death of God=
    1. Appears in "Zarathustra".  He descends, and people talk abo= ut God.  He goes "What, you haven't heard?  God is dead!= "
    2. Wrong interpretations:=
      1. Literally- this would mean that God was once alive, and then died, like a plant or an animal.  This doesn't work, obviously.
      2. Culturally- the role = of God in our society is dead compared to, say, the pervasive, completely essential role is played within the middle ages.  A little more viable of an interpretation.
      3. You experience yourse= lf without the presence of God.  If you are 'deconverted': at this point, at this personal level, and th= is is pulled out from under you, you are now somewhat confused.  No more guideposts.  Your self is in jeopardy.  You have to experience yourself= .  There is no death of god until = you've personally experienced this.
    1. The death of god is meant to affirm life even furth= er- a newfound freedom, a power.
    2. Also gives courage- wh= atever else you may say, it would take courage to accept the death of God.
  6. Creativity
  7. Self-overcoming: the wi= ll to power
    1. Proto-process philosopher
    2. Will to power:  The urge to get more and more po= wer
    3. You must go past yourself.  Go from being hap= py with yourself (might as well be dead- melancholy of the finished) to overcoming yourself.
    4. Good is a relative ter= m, a ranking term.  It's to compa= re to your contemporaries and predecessors.
  8. Leads to Elitism.  Nietzsche is an elitist.  Though it is not based on any rac= e or religious foundation.  Some o= f us are just better than others, without regard to race.
  9. Living dangerously
  10. Contextualism
    1. Though he calls himself amoral, he does have a cert= ain brand of ethics.
    2. Can only find the right thing to do without a context.  'Act ethicist'. i.e. there is a painting with missing parts, a= nd you must find what would best complete this whole.  It must fit.
    3. 'Last good Christian d= ied on the cross'.  Admired Jesus, = in a sense.  Everyone else follow= ed along.  Herd morality.
  11. The eternal recurrence<= /span>
    1. Originally intended as a scientific hypothesis.
    2. Suppose there is a lar= ge (but finite) number of things that can happen at any given moment.
    3. On the other hand, ima= gine that there is a infinite amount of time.
    4. After all these things happen, there is still time, but nothing left to happen.  But things still must keep happe= ning.
    5. So it all happens again.  You better get this = right, or you've got nothing else right.  Live your life in such a way that you would be willing to live= it over and over.
  12. The overman- if you can= live by the above doctrine, you are The Overman.  Despite himself, Nietzsche has a = system of sorts.
  13. Gratitude
  14. On Reason
    1. Attacks causality and reason

 

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