Monthly Archives: September 2006

Nietzsche on the Opposition

Posted else­where on the Inter­net in another guise, but I thought it good enough to repeat here. “They have got rid of the Chris­t­ian God, and now feel obliged to cling all the more firmly to Chris­t­ian moral­ity; that is Eng­lish con­sis­tency.… Chris­t­ian moral­ity is a com­mand: its ori­gin is tran­scen­den­tal; it is beyond all …

September 30, 2006 – 4:05 pm | By ashok | Posted in nietzsche, philosophy | Comments (1)

Wisdom vs. Prudence

When one puts the prob­lem in the abstract, say­ing some­thing such as “Are wis­dom and pru­dence the same thing,” one does the prob­lem a mas­sive injus­tice. It is a very real prob­lem, and it exists in every­day life. There’s no doubt in my mind that some of my pro­fes­sors are gen­uinely wise, as they’ve given me …

September 28, 2006 – 3:00 pm | By ashok | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (1)

Decline & Fall

Some­one asked me about the fac­ulty sit­u­a­tion in the Uni­ver­sity the other day, and I gave my con­spir­acy the­ory response, which is as fol­lows. The big prob­lem with uni­ver­si­ties is that none of them are hir­ing new fac­ulty. The mar­ket for new PhD’s is ter­ri­ble; the Chron­i­cle of Higher Edu­ca­tion con­sis­tently has hor­ror sto­ries where …

September 27, 2006 – 1:41 pm | By ashok | Posted in academia | Comments (0)

Hmm.

I’m pissed at her. I don’t really know why. I want to for­give, but I can only forget.

September 25, 2006 – 2:44 am | By ashok | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (1)

Thoughts on Nietzsche, Science and Politics

“The harsh Helot con­di­tion to which the tremen­dous extent of sci­ence has con­demned every sin­gle per­son today is one of the main rea­sons why edu­ca­tion and edu­ca­tors appro­pri­ate to fuller, richer, deeper natures are no longer forth­com­ing. Our cul­ture suf­fers from noth­ing more than it suf­fers from the super­abun­dance of pre­sump­tu­ous jour­ney­men and frag­ments of …

September 21, 2006 – 3:36 pm | By ashok | Posted in nietzsche, philosophy | Comments (0)