“What serves the higher type of men as nourishment or delectation must almost be poison for a very different and inferior type. The virtues of the common man might perhaps signify vices and weaknesses in a philosopher.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §30 (excerpt).
“Whoever has endeavored, as I have, to think pessimism through to its depths and liberate it from Schopenhauer’s philosophy, has thus opened his eyes to the opposite ideal: that of the high-spirited, world-affirming human being who has not only come to terms and learned to get along with whatever was and is, but who wants to have what was and is repeated into all eternity.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §56 (edited excerpt).
“Modern philosophy, being an epistemological skepticism, is covertly or overtly anti-Christian, though by no means anti-religious. Since Descartes, every philosopher has sought to assassinate the old soul concept, which is the basic presupposition of the Christian doctrine, under the guise of a critique of the subject-and-predicate concept.”
—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §54 (edited excerpt).
This is a short post, and in it Russell outlines the areas of Plato he is going to discuss, whilst also explaining the thoughts which influenced Plato’s personal philosophy.
He tells us that Plato was born 428/7 BCE in the early years of the Peloponnesian war. He came from an aristocratic family and despised democracy. There were two main reasons for this, the first of which is that he attributed…
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107 aniversario del nacimiento de Simone De Beauvoir
Una de las escritoras y feministas más importantes e influyentes del s.XX. Siembre comprometida con sus propios ideales luchó por ellos toda su vida, así como también por la libertad de la mujer y sus derechos
Copy of Jusepe de Ribera or Jose de Ribera, also called Lo Spagnoleto (Xativa, Spain 1591 - 1652 Naples, Italy), The Philosopher with Mirror, 1652, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
We don’t usually post sold items here, but this 18th-century print after the Flemish painter David Teniers, titled “Philosopher Laughing at Magick,” intrigues us. It might be presumed that the fantastical creatures and supernatural forces associated with alchemy and magic that surround the philosopher — a man of reason — are described in the book that he is reading with a bemused and skeptical smile on his face. The title of the print states that the philosopher is laughing at magic, but its overwhelming presence in the print makes his relationship with mysticism and the occult somewhat ambiguous. Is he instead an alchemist or fascinated by the theories of alchemy? See more here: https://www.georgeglazer.com/wpmain/product/old-master-philosopher-laughing-at-magick-david-teniers-antique-print-london-c-1775/
