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>And someone to be making that call isn't someone who has read very little of his work You know what I've read?
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>Neodoxy: Anyone who doesn't recognize Nietzsche as genius and an exceedingly insightful author into the human mind, heart, and spirit is either a fool or hasn't read his work. A third possibility is that his writings are the ramblings of a batshit crazy person. Nietzsche also seems to focus on Germany and on Christianity, i.e. a particular
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>Neodoxy: every reason you can support is reason enough to support such a use of force So you've found the flaw in Hoppe's argumentation ethics, have you? >Aristophanes: Here I am simply trying to take Nietzsche's "ethic" into culture. Good luck with that. As far as I can tell, Neitzsche does not provide any kind of knowledge
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The death penalty is acceptable in accordance with tit-for-tat or "eye for an eye" positions from antiquity, plus Kinsella's estoppel theory of punishment. It seems that all of the sophisticated, semi-empirical, utilitarian arguments to the contrary have the typical weaknesses, e.g. (1) is it OK for a man to rape a woman if his pleasure
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Hairnet, I would like to know too. If NAP remains valid, then one could use memetic engineering ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetic_engineering ) to subjugate others and impart his morals on them. Couldn't an elite person do that, instead of resorting to beast-like violence (e.g. slavery)? >mentioning your opponets mom doesn't strike you
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>I don't believe there is basic argument behind the NAP. There is. See https://mises.org/daily/5322/ "Argumentation Ethics and Liberty: A Concise Guide" >You made it clear that you evaluations of others re based in aesthetics. In other words he evaluates others subjectively. Just like the 7 billion non-elite human beings do.
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>None of what I've said is wrong Is arrogance also an elite value? >The concept of the symmetry of vibrations and sound didn't lead directly to M STRING THEORY The connection between music and physics beyond the Standard Model is pretty tenuous. Listening to Wagner or Justin Bieber or whomever won't help us solve the mysteries quantum
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>When philosophy discovers a truth, it moves into a category of science; that is the value of philosophy. I agree with this. The problem is that it leaves behind a festering, ever-growing remnant of pseudoscience. It's a shame to cognitively burden oneself with so much rubbish and then come up with these nonsensical kinds of posts. >@baxter
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>It seems like you think that a lot of people have misplaced values. What values should they have? rudeness playing games avoiding direct responses wasting neurons on listening to music and reading poetry and arguing about people who died thousands of years ago etc. >Well, the basic argument behind the NAP is one [wrong thing]. So where did Hoppe
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>The point of the OP was just meant to be polemic as I figured most people would react like Auto did So we have an elite truth-seeker playing games rather than being an honest, truth-seeking debate participant. >The great poets (I mentioned Goethe) are elite. "There once was a man from Nantucket" - where is the secret truth therein?