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Revisiting Nietzsche and Scheler's Philosophies of Ressentiment
One often hears Nietzsche's views on ressentiment cited, but I contend that they are resentful. Nietzsche considered ressentiment as a central theme of his philosophy describing it as feelings of ...
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What is Virtue?
I have been reading Plato and re-reading Nietzsche and both of them discuss Virtue without saying what it is. In Thus Spake Zarathustra Virtue seems to come in flavours where you have to pick one or ...
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(1) Who was Nietzsche quoting in this passage, and (2) what is it saying?
This is a quotation from section 18 of First division: First and Last Things in Nietzsches Human, All Too Human:
When the history of the rise of thought comes to be written, a new light will be ...
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Would Nietzsche approve of the concept of dictatorship?
My understanding of Nietzsche is still quite rudimentary but something I keep thinking about while reading his texts, is whether he would approve of the concept of dictatorships.
N is fine with ...
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Refutation of a Nietzschanian Argument
Soon I will have to debate about Nietzsche and I have to contradict a thesis that he supported. The thesis is: The essence of a force is to be in relationship with other forces. I think this has to do ...
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Heaviness in eternal recurence
In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, it is said that:
In the world of eternal return the weight of unbearable responsibility lies heavy on every move we make. That is why Nietzsche called the idea ...
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What does Nietzsche refer to with the "backworldsmen"?
I'm a rookie to philosophical thinking but trying my best to understand the concepts. I'd be appreciated if you could enlighten me about this:
In Chapter 3 of Thus Spake Zarathustra, he is addressing ...
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Did Nietzsche “believe” in causality?
In Human, all too human, part 1, par. 107 (“non-responsibility and non-guilt”) Nietzsche clearly brings forth the Spinozian theory of the “innocence of becoming”.
I am a bit confused by this claim. ...
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Ontology in the Nietzschean framework
Would you say that Nietzsche held any regard to the ontological question in his work? I know more or less his account on metaphysics, he seem to push the question aside as he considers it does not fit ...
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How does Martin Heidegger want us to react to anxiety?
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After the world of das Man loses its significance and becomes meaningless, one falls in anxiety and he's able to embrace other possibilities.
But this anxiety is converted automatically ...
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Why did Nietzsche like Julius Caesar so much?
Nietzsche seems to have a certain fascination with figures like Goethe and Julius Caesar. I was wondering why this is the case. Why, specifically, does Nietzsche look up to Caesar so much. Why does he ...
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How would Nietzsche argue against classical theism?
Completely out of curiosity, how would someone like Nietzsche, let's use him as an example, argue against Aquinas's metaphysical argument for classical theism. I can't seem to find any references in ...
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Please explain perspectivism to me
I was wondering if someone could please explain Nietzsche's perspectivism to me. I used to think that it was similar to Descartes' method of thinking. That everything was subjective because everything ...
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What does Nietzsche mean in his metaphor about dreaming and its relationship to truth?
I am having trouble understanding the following passage completely:
In accordance with the
root meaning of his association with “brightness,”
he is the god of light; he also rules over the beautiful
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Must infinity involve repetitions?
Infinity for Nietzsche in at least one line of argument involves the eternal return; he refers to it in the Die fröhliche Wissenschaft and Also sprach Zarathustra; most completely in his Notes on the ...
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