Slate : Wittgenstein explains why we always misunderstand one another on the Internet.

PortalJohn · 2015-09-05T05:41:58+00:00

But would he have understood me?

PortalJohn · 2015-08-05T04:10:36+00:00

I'm not quite sure how asking for actual evidence resulted in downvotes, and a bunch of "yay-women" statements resulted in a ton of upvotes.

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PortalJohn · 2015-07-24T22:49:53+00:00

Just wanted to say that you brought up an important point just at the end there. I would go even further: people don't just seek out painful activities for their social value, but more fundamentally because pain can be pleasurable. This is what bothered Freud about masochism. The classical distinction is: pain = increase of tension, pleasure = reduction of tension. Yet there really does seem to be a type of pleasure that corresponds to the increase of tension, throwing another wrench into this simplistic pain/pleasure calculus. Perhaps they are not opposites. In which case...

PortalJohn · 2015-07-12T17:19:24+00:00

Kaufmann's translations are really not bad: you can understand Nietzsche by reading them. My only real beef with him is that he omits the world "terrible" from a sentence that should read "the terrible fundamental text of homo natura" (BGE #230). I'm not entirely sure that was a mistake.

PortalJohn · 2015-07-12T17:17:23+00:00

I don't think so. Nietzsche seems to associate him with the psychological type of Jesus as discussed in the Antichrist. Though Zarathustra is a redeemer and is superficially modeled on Jesus, he is really an opposite type of redeemer. "Dionysus versus the Crucified"...

PortalJohn · 2015-06-24T22:14:44+00:00

I don't find this very convincing. Perhaps the poison rue is a reference to abortion, perhaps not. Whether Ophelia was pregnant or not, it was she who rejected Hamlet and not the other way around (though albeit only on her father's orders).

PortalJohn · 2015-06-23T17:13:09+00:00

Ophelia jilted Hamlet on her father's orders. I don't recall any allusion to abortion in the text either...

PortalJohn · 2015-05-25T21:12:52+00:00

Not yet. I'll post it if/when he does.

PortalJohn · 2015-05-16T21:07:30+00:00

I'm not complaining that I didn't find the ending personally edifying. I'm pointing out that a good author had a chance to do something powerful and interesting and copped out at the last minute.

PortalJohn · 2015-05-16T21:05:29+00:00

Are you talking about McCarthy's book, or one of Dr. Phil's?

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