Comments on: Nietzschean Shards

By: tonreihe

tonreihe — Sat, 02 Nov 2013 13:04:16 +0000

I think it’s time for another “new Spinoza” myself. Isn’t Gnon just another word for Deus sive Natura?

By: VXXC

VXXC — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 11:43:08 +0000

“Beans are the new Meat” – Tyler Cowen.

Now that is nihilistic Will To Power.

By: Scharlach

Scharlach — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 02:38:45 +0000

I very much value the poetic aspects of Nietzsche. I would just caution against the slipper slope down toward “reality is a linguistic construct,” a slope which many of fallen down after reading our German mensch. If that wasn’t your intention, I apologize for misreading your comment.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 08:22:37 +0000

slave morality is degenerative because it reduces the aggregate capability to act.

Makes sense.

It’s close to the technoparanoid position: “Let’s try to make sure nothing arises that’s intelligent enough to be a problem for us.”

I suppose one could derive a kind of technoparanoia from a 'master-morality' perspective: "Too many machines will make us soft and weak!" Perhaps there's a case for moderate reactionary primitivism.

By: Antisthenes

Antisthenes — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 08:18:07 +0000

Not leftist at all. You don’t value the poetic aspects of Nietzsche?

By: Scharlach

Scharlach — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 02:47:33 +0000

“Remake our lives in language.” Very leftist. You can try to get concept-clusters circulating in meme-space, but ultimately, life is made and remade by processes much less tractable than our grammars. Language reflects reality. It doesn’t construct it. The best we can hope is that our language reflects reality as accurately and realistically as possible. Hence why I don’t mind the reacto-sphere’s frequent rhetorical flourishes and moments of hyperbole. Even our hyperboles are at least embodying ideas that, at their roots, make reality just a little more tractable.

By: Scharlach

Scharlach — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 02:47:15 +0000

By: Peter A. Taylor

Peter A. Taylor — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 01:49:01 +0000

I was listening to an audiobook of Eric Vögelin’s _Science, Politics, and Gnosticism_, which talks about Nietzsche a fair bit and ties into the question of how Progressivism is related to Christianity.

Did God die of natural causes, or was He murdered?

By: admin

admin — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 01:48:42 +0000

My knee-jerk response would be based on the assumption that slave morality is degenerative because it reduces the aggregate capability to act. It’s close to the technoparanoid position: “Let’s try to make sure nothing arises that’s intelligent enough to be a problem for us.”

By: Scharlach

Scharlach — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 00:41:56 +0000

Yes, whenever I hear "posthumanism" tossed around on my campus, they are usually talking about the sort of drivel written by people like Donna Haraway.