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This is one of those rare cases where I believe young men would benefit from reading more Nietzsche. "Do you want to live 'according to nature'? O you noble St
by throw4847285 9mo ago
This is one of those rare cases where I believe young men would benefit from reading more Nietzsche.
"Do you want to live 'according to nature'? O you noble Stoics, what a verbal swindle! Imagine a being like nature - extravagant without limit, indifferent without limit, without purposes and consideration, without pity and justice, simultaneously fruitful, desolate, and unknown - imagine this indifference itself as a power - how could you live in accordance with this indifference? Living - isn't that precisely a will to be something different from what this nature is? Isn't living appraising, preferring, being unjust, being limited, wanting to be different?"
- willmarch 9mo agoThis just shows that Nietzsche did not understand stoicism on any deep level
- recursive 9mo agoIf that's true, then what hope does anyone else have?
- bigbadfeline 9mo agoNietzsche never cared about understanding of anything, he had an agenda, a mission to fulfill. His arguments are always shallow and shifty - the quote provided by throw4847285 is a good illustration of it. With that said, my words aren't an endorsement of Stoicism, nor am I against it - I know little about it because I don't think it addresses my specific needs.
- svat 9mo agoThis is quoted (and addressed) near the beginning of the article (paragraphs 3 to 6), for what it's worth.
- throw4847285 9mo agoWell that's what I get for commenting before reading the article. A nasty habit. Well now that I've read that part of the article, I can say that it's a pretty lame retort.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 9mo agoSounds Socratic rather than taking a position