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Matthew LaPine has left a new comment on your post "The Rope":

I would recommend The Gay Science if you're only going to read one. Nietzsche is a quote machine. If you're going to read more than one, maybe Twilight of the Gods, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Human All to Human.

This is a classic,

"That lambs dislike great birds of prey does not seem strange, only it gives no ground for reproaching these birds of prey for bearing off little lambs. And if the lambs say among themselves: "these birds of prey are evil, and whoever is least like a bird of prey, but rather its opposite, a lamb—would he not be good?" There is no reason to find fault with this institution of an ideal, except perhaps that the birds of prey might view it a little ironically and say: "we don't dislike them at all, these good little lambs; we even love them: nothing is more tasty than a tender lamb." Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals



Posted by Matthew LaPine to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 3:31 PM

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Andy Messmer has left a new comment on your post "The Rope":

What is the best Nietzche collection of books, for someone like me who wants to get a feel for him as well as compile some of his more brutally honest quotes?



Posted by Andy Messmer to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 4:50 AM

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Matthew LaPine has left a new comment on your post "The Rope":

"overman" or more colloquially "superman"

Sorry, this video is a very interesting scene if you have watched the rest of the film. I couldn't find a more self enclosed clip. In this clip the young man who closes the trunk has murdered the man who is in the trunk. Jimmy Stewart is the man's old professor who taught him that there is a class of people for whom murder isn't wrong, the ubermensch. The young man is living out Nietzsche's worldview. It's the most interesting movie I've watched that occurs in one room.



Posted by Matthew LaPine to εις επαινον δοξης αυτου at 6:21 PM

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First, please translate 'ubermensch.'
Second, please tell me why this is interesting



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Matthew LaPine has left a new comment on your post "What Philosophers Do":

Chris, really appreciate the comment. I don't believe we've met have we?

I certainly agree with you. Thanks for the book recommendations.

- Matt



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Chris Trampel has left a new comment on your post "What Philosophers Do":

I couldn't help contrasting Kahn's view of the role of philosophy with that of Father Copleston:

"But if it is desirable for all cultured men to know something of the history of philosophic thought, so far as occupation, cast of mind and need for specialisation permit, how much more is this not desirable for all avowed students of philosophy. I refer especially to students of the Scholastic Philosophy, who study it as the philosophia perennis. That it is the philosophia perennis I have no wish to dispute; but it did not drop down from Heaven, it grew out of the past; and if we really want to appreciate the work of St. Thomas Aquinas or St. Bonaventure or Duns Scotus, we should know something of Plato and Aristotle and St. Augustine. Again, if there is a philosophia perennis, it is only to be expected that some of its principles should be operative in the minds even of philosophers of modern times, who may seem at first sight to stand far from St. Thomas Aquinas." Frederick Copleston, A History of Philosophy: Volume I, p. 2

While Copleston shares Kahn's sense of history, he nevertheless feels that there is something "out there" to be discovered. The philosopher does more than analyze systems, he uncovers the structure of Reality. And while remaining committed to Thomism, Copleston recognizes with Lewis that people of other cultural and philosophical persuasions make partial contact with "The World As It Is." In his view, philosophers can learn from the mistakes of the past. That is to say, there is such a thing as "progress" in philosophy. A book I really want to read along these lines is Gary Gutting's What Philosophers Know: Case Studies in Recent Analytic Philosophy.



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