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What amount of egoism is natural, even necessary, even moral? [closed]
In his second theorem in the Critique of Practical Reason, Kant states that a rational being's consciousness of the agreeableness of life accompanying his whole existence is happiness, and the ...
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To what extent is Nietzsche an "Idealist?"
I am well aware of Nietzsche's prolonged and often prolific critiques of what he referred to as "Idealism," yet I am curious as to the extent which two of his ideas in particular, namely ...
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What is the justification for Deleuze's 3rd synthesis of time?
In Difference and Repitition by Deleuze, he comes up with 3 syntheses of time. The first being habitus, which is the conditioning of actual experience through pre-existing material patterns for the ...
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What exactly is Nietzsche’s criticism of the Thing-in-itself and is it supplanted by his Will to Power?
How did Nietzsche criticize the Thing-in-itself from Kantian philosophy?
There are two popular claims:
Nietzsche thought that we only know causation from experiences and and so cannot legitimately ...
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Why did Nietzsche dislike Kant and his epistemology so much?
So many books where Nietzsche criticizes Kant and express his contempt about the "categorical imperative" for example in "Beyond Good and Evil":
The spectacle of the Tartuffery of old Kant, ...
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Is globalization immoral? [closed]
My question pertains to when Morality becomes so defined and homogenous to the entire population if this isn’t immoral to the diversities that it umbrellas. In a world that now demands membership as ...
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What is Nietzsche's source of immediate knowledge in Beyond Good and Evil?
In Beyond Good and Evil, Section 16, Nietzsche uses "immediate certainties" in quotation marks. Who and from where is Nietzsche quoting this, or is he using the quotations marks to speak ironically? ...
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What is the root reason for Nietzsche calling Kant a "fatal spider"?
Antichrist p11.
Why couldn't Nietzsche take the rough with the smooth, in Kant's moral philosophy?
Does the categorical imperative have a perspective from which it's reasonable, ether for Nietzsche'...
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Is a perfect chaos possible?
There are various notions of chaos, in myth, science and philosophy:
Nietzsche in the Gay Science wrote:
the total character of the world is chaos for all eternity - in the sense of not of a lack ...
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