Bedrock & Paradox

I dream of a hard and brutal mysticism in which the naked self merges with a non-human world and yet somehow survives still intact, individual, separate. Paradox and bedrock.

AM reading

What this says to me is that there is no primordial conception of justice lurking in each breast. We are ideological and doctrinal beings, coached into our moral views. That is to say, John Rawls’ “A Theory of Justice” is more likely to give you ideas than it is to reflect ideas you already had.

-The Economist

Reagan’s defenders protest furiously that he wasn’t personally bigoted. So what? We’re talking about his political strategy. His personal beliefs are irrelevant.

-Paul Krugman


All things are subject to interpretation, whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

DaveC

6 responses to “AM reading”

  1. Enel Avatar
    Enel

    The Krugman article makes no sense.The other article has little relevancy.Dang I’m tough today.I’ve also decided I have no use for folks who complain about their lives. Those living in poverty, or with terminal illnesses/chronic pain excepted.

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  2. Dave Avatar
    Dave

    Relevance to what?

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  3. chollaball Avatar
    chollaball

    an excellent example of Nietzsche’s perspectivalism in a nutshell, and an excellent complement to the critique of Rawls whom Nietzsche would surely dismiss as a Kant-come-lately. So in tieing these 2 examples of power-grabs to an example of Nietzsche, you saying there is no truth in politics? i can live with that, so could Nietzsche – his politics if you read close and in depth (as its not a commonly taught part of his work) is imo Hobbesian.

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  4. Dave Avatar
    Dave

    Or; the only truth that is in truth as such is what we find there. Politics or otherwise.Now, the hard part is seeing “relativism” (but relative to WHAT?!) as liberating and courageous rather than nihilistic.

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  5. Enel Avatar
    Enel

    ??????This is why I was not a philosophy major

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  6. chollaball Avatar
    chollaball

    hahaha i was a philosophy major and f@#ck lotta good that did me, other than being able to send quality emails in an industry painfully devoid of people who can write…relativism as liberating is the essence of Nietzsche, imo – god is dead, that which does not kill me makes me stronger, the spirit now wills his own will etc etc etc.

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