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05/02/2025

Socrates- anti-optimism

Nietzsche tells us the dialectical situation-argument and counter-argument- is always 'positive'. One of the authors (or all) are 'optimistic'. The dialectical situation denies the 'tragic'. Someone always gets away with being 'positive'.

Socrates was very fond of dialectic coversation. He was a very intelligent and 'honest' man but his 'posivitism' was 'tragic' according to Nietzsche. At the end of his life he drank hemlock because he'd been convicted to being put to death.

According many authors he was convinced about life after death. Perhaps he died convinced his life would continue some mysterious way or some way by 'bad faith'. Who knows?!

Many 'existential writers' seem to suggest Socrates was right about 'optimistic', dialectical situations Some existential writers, apparently, deny the 'tragic' according to Nietzsche.

What do you think about the 'tragic' life?

Nietzsche and nihilismsNietzsche was pessimistic about purpose or aim, unity or psychological fabrications about 'being'...
08/06/2023

Nietzsche and nihilisms

Nietzsche was pessimistic about purpose or aim, unity or psychological fabrications about 'being'. He warned about 'positiveness' or even hope!

But he comments '. having reached this standpoint one grants the reality of 'becoming' as the only reality, forbids oneself every kind of clandestine access to afterworlds and false divinities-but cannot endure this world though one does not want to deny it'.

The person, disappointed to find her world lacks the hopes and aspirations she was dreaming about from aim, unity, psychologjcal 'Being', perhaps turns her back to the world. Ontological insecurity turns to ontological depression and despair. But this response to these aspects of 'nihilism'-aim, unity, the fabrication of 'Being' -is not the only response in the 'nihilistic' crisis. The other response is the gradual loss of nihilistic values of the human condition and the devaluing of aim, unity and 'Being' AND celebrating the world.

This response is 'negative' but it turns our appreciation of life without using aim, unity and the fabrication of 'Being'. Nihilism, 'active' nihilism rather than 'passive' nihilism-aim, unity and Being-becomes remedy. 'It turns poison into remedy.

Nietxsche values life intrinsically as it were. He values life but needs no meaning or moral values smeared on it. The values of the world lie in our interpretation of them!! The values of the world are fabricated, false. The values of our world are not fact but the basis of observations, are 'becoming' . There is no truth out there!

(see Nietzsche and Psychotherapy, Manu Bazzano p. 129-130)

25/03/2023

MORALITY AND ETHICS.

Morality turns a person into a bourgeois.... Ethics turns a person into a citizen..
Morality produces interiority as repentence.
Ethics introduces exteriority as reality

Manu Bazzano The Spectre of the Stranger: Sussex Academy Press

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