Category Archives: nietzsche

Notes on Nietzsche, “Thus Spake Zarathustra” – “On the New Idol”

Still reading through Zarathustra. If Laurence Lampert is correct and the book is about Zarathustra learning as a teacher, then I’m in no position to comment on this section as if it were a fixed and final teaching. Let’s get to the fun part, then highlight some of the ambiguities and issues that have presented …

September 14, 2010 – 3:36 pm | By ashok | Posted in nietzsche, philosophy, politics | Comments (1)

Towards a Nietzschean Understanding of Politics: Notes on "The Case of Wagner" (Part 3)

part 1 | part 2 | part 3 II. Music, Art and Politics for Nancy Ruggeri 1. A fellow student in graduate school remarked that after reading Nietzsche, his love for the band Cursive fell away – the nihilism in their lyrics and their overly emotional tropes struck him as decadent and he couldn’t take …

July 19, 2008 – 2:59 am | By ashok | Posted in nietzsche, philosophy, politics | Tagged , , | Comments (1)

Towards a Nietzschean Understanding of Politics: Notes on "The Case of Wagner" (Part 2)

part 1 | part 2 | part 3 In the first part, we went through the Preface of this work very carefully in order to discuss how Nietzsche sets up possible personae for the sake of delivering both an effective teaching and a more difficult teaching. Now I want to achieve two things: outline the …

July 18, 2008 – 12:16 pm | By ashok | Posted in nietzsche, philosophy, politics | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Towards a Nietzschean Understanding of Politics: Notes on "The Case of Wagner" (Part 1)

part 1 | part 2 | part 3 All citations from the essay throughout the course of this series are from the Kaufmann translation in the “Basic Writings of Nietzsche” published by Modern Library, copyright 1992, p. 611-653. First part: “Preface,” p. 611-612, with commentary. Note: Words in italics those of Nietzsche’s. Each paragraph from …

July 18, 2008 – 7:48 am | By ashok | Posted in nietzsche, philosophy, politics | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

On the Nature of Teaching: Regarding Three Aphorisms from Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil

Whoever is a teacher through and through takes all things seriously only in relation to his students – even himself. – Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil section 63, trans. Walter Kaufmann This is one of those things which has been around for a long time, and I have dwelled on it for an even longer …

May 14, 2007 – 9:32 pm | By ashok | Posted in education, nietzsche, philosophy | Comments (0)

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)

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 (1)