What is Tyranny?

The following is the constitution of real_philosophy.  It seems to me the exchange led to below in the hypertext violates the spirit to "expect all members to participate and dialog in good faith for the purpose of improving one another's positions, not dominating one another."

"real_philosophy is a community for those who engage ( Read more... )

Nay Sayers!  Fear is a sign of life lost.  What are you afraid of?  What do you profess, but the absence of life?   In the pit, of your soul, you will find the fire - smoldering.  In the discarded elements that make you a heap is the key to your symposium.

The fear of gnashing - is  sucking - you down.  You never received the sign.  It is ( Read more... )

…I love you, I hate you, I love you, I hate you…

- Hermeneutics

…I love you, I hate you, I’m indifferent; I love you, I hate you, I’m indifferent…

- Hegel: the cause of mere Nihilism.

Does "insight" mean more than what someone knows?  The more I learn about myself, the more I see the ebb and flow of the ancient Charybdis, Hermeneutic Circle, or Vicious Circle: the one and the many.

Do you have Odysseus’ intrepid eyes?

Look into that mauling pit sucking at your soul.

Can you swim, fly or crawl?

I come from the water!

Your red hair is my dominion, your eyes fixed on me.  Delight is upon your face telling me of your flow.  I come closer and you feel me.  Your face is pure, mouth pouts open staring.  The skin on your breasts is tight and like a Seuraut.  Beneath the harmonious exteriors that move in rhythm grows a flame so combustive that it could only be ( Read more... )

I’m alone in the world, and I know it.  I am coming to the realization of how alone - alone - means.  It means no one else.  I like others, but they are either on the other side of the internet, or are in my Garden of Eden.  Mind you my garden comes with not just one but many snakes.  As if one retired professor of Political Philosophy and ( Read more... )

 

3.1 Transformation of the Sciences of Man

Passive mental habits create passive science: Positivism.  Active mental habits produce an active science: Semiotics or interpretation of signs, Aesthetics, or creating Types, and Genealogy, or determining the rank of active and passive wills.

3.2 The Form of the Question in Nietzsche

Which one ( Read more... )

2. Active and Reactive

2.1 The Body

Zarathustra teaches the meaning of the earth.  The one way to view the earth is from the perspective of the body as the earth that can be directly observed.  The body is an unconscious force that emanates consciousness like a log emanates a flame when lit.  As such the body is the final or highest aspect of ( Read more... )

1 The Tragic

1.1 The Concept of Genealogy

Nietzsche starts the project of revaluation by the introduction of value and sense into philosophical discourse.  In this context value is a problem because evaluation, or critique, is presupposed by a value.  Thus the origin of a critique or evaluation is the value which effects the critique.  There ( Read more... )