tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15005476.post651780185552564424..comments2023-10-10T08:02:18.073-04:00Comments on Rationally Speaking: RS encore: Breuer vs Nietzsche and the meaning of what we doUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15005476.post-13327512324583556822012-07-11T03:47:13.967-04:002012-07-11T03:47:13.967-04:00I would agree that as individuals we create our re...I would agree that as individuals we create our relationships: they are 'our' relationships driven by whatever drives 'us' to maintain them, sometimes despite the other. So in that fairly basic way we might be the source of the love that maintains it, whether or not it is reciprocated by the other. It is realistic, and maybe even Germanic (Kant, Einstein) to take a relative view from the perspective of the individualnal. The problem is that he did seem bitter, and so whilst the analysis could hold, the reality does not seem to equate to 'love' in his case, but I will read more.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14612283941807324298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15005476.post-19725568296071678582012-07-11T03:36:44.684-04:002012-07-11T03:36:44.684-04:00Compared to a masssive supernova we are tiny, but ...Compared to a masssive supernova we are tiny, but it is just dead matter. Life may be very tiny, but may be very special compared with the rest of dead matter.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14612283941807324298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15005476.post-71988769312223499062012-07-10T12:20:59.115-04:002012-07-10T12:20:59.115-04:00Good article. But I believe that Nietzsche is a po...Good article. But I believe that Nietzsche is a poor character choice and Schopenhauer would have been a much better one.<br />Because Nietzsche not only is a lover of repetition but is a well known secret that Nietzsche's bitterness is the result of his enormous love and kindness. Till the very end he loved cosima wagner and poeticized her. How heartbreaking is his fragment from his turinese isolation where he laments "Ariadne always chooses Theseus over Dionysus."<br />The truth is that Nietzsche is a third position between cynical resentment and quietist acceptation of our finitude.The Nietzschean position is that of claiming that the uniqueness is not to be found in the actions of the other, but in one's own love, in his passion. He would say that what is important is not the other, but that obsession, that intoxication that in the novel he tried to cure as pathological.The fire is thus more important than the other, the dance more important than the partner. <br />The conclusion for Nietzsche would be that if one is certainly lucky to be love, it is much more tragic to be the one who is loved but not loving.irohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09208372138516119587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15005476.post-56700350987657018892012-07-10T11:09:56.115-04:002012-07-10T11:09:56.115-04:00One of the problems with which we must struggle is...One of the problems with which we must struggle is our self-absorbtion. Our conceit is somewhat laughable given our tiny place in the universe, but it has unfortunately served as the basis for much of philosophy and other things.ciceronianushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10134836668562326081noreply@blogger.com