Tag Archives: Nietzsche

Christian Humanism and Beyond – Western Religion after Kantian Agnosticism

Posted on November 23, 2011 by

In my IT2 class, we read various interpretations of Gnostic spirituality, including one buy the very famous Princeton University scholar Elaine Pagels. As I read Pagels, I can’t help but notice her numerous references to the earlier scholarship of Adolf … Continue reading →

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T. S. Eliot’s Magdalenian Draughtsmen vs. Nietzsche’s Prehistoric Murderers and Self-Mutilators

Posted on October 3, 2011 by

Jean-Pierre Vernant “Tension and Ambiguity in Greek Tragedy” (1972) –Jean-Pierre Vernant delineates a compelling new vision of ancient Greece that takes us far from the calm and familiar images of Polykleitos and the Parthenon, and reveals a culture of slavery, … Continue reading →

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Neurasthenia and Modernity

Posted on September 21, 2011 by

Edvard Munch Friedrich Nietzsche (1906) NEURASTHENIA: (noun) Psychiatry (not in technical use) nervous debility and exhaustion occurring in the absence of objective causes or lesions; nervous exhaustion. Edvard Munch The Dance of Life (1900) A life in boundless pursuit of … Continue reading →

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Karma – “Arjuna built a bridge with his arrows.”

Posted on August 11, 2011 by

Nietzschean morality is too extreme for most people to countenance. They can’t conceive that throwing off all moral constraints won’t necessarily lead to: 1) general madness and anarchy, 2) the complete loss of dignity in life. But even a thinker … Continue reading →

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