/lit/ - Literature

>>9332365

sharing knowledge for free/no economic benefit in a self-titled academic/literary setting.

yeah, you're right, i'm sure they'd be furious.

>>9044470
>The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions

this is off topic a bit, but i am curious to start a number of conversations going with you: have you read much of the american transcendentalists, especially emerson and whitman? i would be very curious your take on the "genteel tradition" and how nietzsche hangs in the background of american antinomean philosophy; i think, too, that postmodernism is less a product of nietzschean philosophy and more an extension of american culture viz. transcendentalism and genteelism. of course, postmoderns would never admit this and see themselves as a herd of nietzscheans, but whatever, i don't think they tend to understand irony as much as they would portend

>>9044505
>Mankind must work continually at the production of individual great men -- that and nothing else is its task

you seem to have read aristotle--are you familiar with the idea of the moral economy? and have you covered much hegel? i have a couple questions on this point if so.

also, who ranks among your favorite poets/authors? are you american?

>>9044470
>they are brutally honest with each other

fascinating interpretation. two things: first, do you think nietzsche would condone more "traditional" lying among the ubermensch as one more tool of manipulation/power, one that they may use strategically in an effort to duke it out? can the ubermensch strategically lie to the ubermensch in the same way he lies to the final man--or is this a perversion of the relationship?
secondly, on a personal level: do you believe there is such thing as "truth"--or are you neitzschean through and through? what truth have you thus fashioned/are laboring to fashion for yourself now?

>>9013057

you didn't exactly address the core point of my argument. goes to show that 1. you're probably european, and 2. europeans are dumb stupid assholes who can't argue for shit, misunderstand the intellectual caliber of america's intelligentsia, and haven't ultimately read a goddamn thing worth reading