Category Archives: Nietzsche
religion and intellience…
two ways of looking at things in True Detective…
so much going on here that I don’t have time to write about it all yet… but coming soon… watch the whole series – it is amazing!
Nietzsche in a t-shirt slogan….
Okay so not Nietzsche, but perhaps his Genealogy… I’m always trying to get my IB philosophy students to summarise difficult passages in t shirt slogans… it’s a bit lame but it totally helps them to be brief and precise enough to get ace marks…
Anyway I recently discover this phrase in one of the old IB marking schemes, and I kinda like it…
Genealogy traces the moral version of each strand back to pre-moral sources
The ‘strands’ of which it speaks are the threads or elements that are woven together in Christian (Western?) morality and, as it says, Nietzsche’s mission is to show that each of these threads has a non-moral origin. Thoughts?
Is human nature violent? And what would Nietzsche say about Dr King?
This is useful… Notice Dr King’s vocabulary and have a think about what Nietzsche would have to say about Malcolm X…
Mike Tyson in ‘The Hangover’ – Lion (Eagle) become Lamb…?
Okay so you probably won’t feel as sad about this as I did when I saw it but…
here he is in action…