Fragments
Uncategorized May 2nd, 2009Ok, I admit I have not posted for a while. But observing the news, Heraclitus was right! Every moment brings new things! My book reading project is nearing its conclusion (reading the Gay Science/Joyful Wisdom).
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PS The Brits pulled out of Iraq – finally. What was the point in the war exactly? And without that, how can we judge success?
PPS Considering further comparisons of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, this is the closest(?) that FN comes to SK’s knight of faith:
When a man feels that he has a divine mission, say to lift up, to save or to liberate mankind–when a man feels the divine spark in his heart and believes that he is the mouthpiece of supernatural imperatives–when such a mission inflames him, it is only natural that he should stand beyond all merely reasonable standards of judgment. He feels that he is himself sanctified by this mission, that he is himself a type of a higher order! . . . What has a priest to do with philosophy! He stands far above it! (The Anti-Christ, FN)

May 4th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Incredible quote!! Had you not said it was FN I would have been quite unaware it was him speaking. The hint may be in the phrase “He feels that he is himself … of a higher order”.
September 16th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
I found a Nietzsche quote that concerns existential absurdism:
(emphasis by me)
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