(As a regular lurker, and occasional commenter, I've noticed that the topic of Plato and/or Platonic philosophy comes up on occasion -- most recently in the form of a post by writingstudent. Given that, I thought it might be interesting to broaden the subject of discussion by posting an interpretation of a book written by a self-described, and recently-deceased ( Read more... )

I have noticed that, in many mainstream philosophy discussions, when someone utters the phrase "well, perhaps we're just down to a clash of intuitions, here", this seems to translate into something like: "this discussion is over". It is as though, safe in our little foundationalist boxes, we believe that intuitions cannot be analyzed, that they ( Read more... )

For my Modern political theory class I've been asked to write a paper about Nietzsche's famous statement about the death of God, it's meaning, and if I agree or disagree. Before I answer that question I need to know something about Nietzsche though. I know that many of his earlier manuscripts were tainted by his sister so I don't really have much ( Read more... )