“I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.”
Aristotle
Monday 23 April 2012
Monday 20 February 2012
Nietzsche
“Philosophers appear during times of great danger, when the wheel of time is turning faster and faster. Together with art they step into the place vacated by myth.”
Nietzsche. Birth of Tragedy.
Monday 13 February 2012
Nietzsche - Science
“…[the]inquiring scientific spirit how it destroyed the myth, and how that destruction uprooted poetry from its natural, ideal soil, leaving it homeless.” Nietzsche (BT P82)
Monday 6 February 2012
Nietzsche - Science
“…great and universally minded spirits have,…used the armoury of science to lay bare the limitations and determinations of knowledge, and thus have decisively negated the claims of science to universal validity and universal goals….they have revealed the delusion…which imagines it can explain the innermost essence of things."
Nietzsche BT P87
Monday 30 January 2012
Nietzsche
Nietzsche argues that we need “...to see science under the lens of the artist, but art under the lens of life.”
Monday 23 January 2012
Nietzsche - on the Greeks
“The Greeks as interpreters: When we speak of the Greeks we involuntary speak of today and yesterday; their universally known history is a polished mirror which always reflects something that is not in the mirror itself. We take advantage of the freedom to speak about them in order to be silent about other things - so that these Greeks might themselves whisper something in the ear of the thoughtful reader. Thus for modern man the Greeks facilitate the communication of many things which are difficult or hazardous to communicate.”
Nietzsche
Monday 16 January 2012
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