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Thursday, September 22, 2016

Does Nietzsche reject Truth in his "On Truth and Lie"? Definitely not.

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"On Truth and Lie in an Extra Moral Sense" is a justly famous short work of Nietzsche.   It discusses the nature and value of trut...
Thursday, September 15, 2016

Love: The Circle Cycle Theory, or Plato's Symposium Take 2

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There has always been a close relationship between aesthetics and the theory of love, although one would not notice it by looking at any of ...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Nietzsche Birth of Tragedy Section 9 The Genius and Sacrilege

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Section 9 of the Birth of Tragedy is mainly about the value of a certain kind of sacrilege, the sacrificial sacrilege needed to achieve Dion...
Saturday, September 10, 2016

Nussbaum on how Nietzsche differed from Schopenhauer on art, and some implications for everyday aesthetics

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"In the early sections of The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche has... while relying on Schopenhauer, subverted his views in three crucial wa...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Nietzsche Birth of Tragedy Section 8 The Satyr as Human Archetype?

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Nietzsche leads section 8 with a distinction between the idyllic shepherd often to be found in 18th century poetry and painting and the Gree...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Book III Plato's Republic

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The key idea of Republic Book III is “grace.”  The passage I am interested in is the following:  “Let our artists rather be those who are g...
Thursday, August 11, 2016

Idealism vs. Realism, or why not give credit to both?

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Here is my current thinking about idealism vs. realism.  I am in my home office looking at my computer, surrounded by my books. This room I ...