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...hate include: people who smile too much, people who breathe loudly, people who rush me when I’m walking slowly, people who walk slowly in front of me when I’m in a rush, and people who have ever used the words “Nietzsche?? or “post-modernism” in regular conversation. Both small children and old people make me very uncomfortable. And for the life of me, I cannot understand the fascination that so many of my friends have with that live video of little puppies.In short...
...first chapter of his most celebrated work, Czech novelist Milan Kundera illustrates Nietzsche??s idea of “eternal return:” “There is an infinite difference between a Robespierre that occurs once in history, and a Robespierre who eternally returns, chopping off French heads.” When it comes to the tumultuous financial markets of the past year, countless editorialists, economists, and even some public officials have likened the current crisis to the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Savings and Loans debacle of the late 1980s. And who better...
...During my freshman year, I took an upper-level philosophy class on existentialism. Since then, I have tried to live my life in accordance with Nietzsche??s principle of eternal recurrence: Live life such that you would want to live each moment over again, every detail the same. But I have come to discover that this philosophy is incomplete. Life is about more than simply living with no regrets. It is about learning from the regrets that you do have and realizing which moments are the ones you should cherish...
...extols the great ironist philosophers of the 19th and 20th centuries, he finds them deeply troubling and precarious, precisely because philosophy will always hear the siren song of Truth, the irrepressible desire to be universal. Thus we get Hegel’s “absolute,” Nietzsche??s “will to power,” and Heidegger’s “being.” For this reason, Rorty believes that philosophy is done best in the context of the novel, because the novel seeks to express solely the contingent. Proust...
...Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand and Cogan University Professor of the Humanities Stephen J. Greenblatt are planning to co-teach a course next fall on odysseys, which will include texts ranging from Homer’s “Odyssey” to Friedrich Nietzsche??s “Genealogy of Morals.” In developing the course, the professors “tried to think of what books were, in effect, life-changing things that [college students] absolutely should read...sooner rather than later,” Greenblatt said...