/lit/ - Literature

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>>9041939
wow, thanks, man. easily the nicest post anyone has ever responded with.

have you read arthur lovejoy's "the great chain of being"? i think that nietzsche is sorta the apotheosis of the "principle of plentitude" that is drawn from plato and is perfected in aristotle--to this end, i agree entirely in the characterization of nietzsche as a "hierarchical fictionalist"; and i also agree that the telos is one of the myths par excellence as part of this or that will-to-knowledge/ploy-to-power of the overman; but i also think that there is an irony to nietzsche's appropriation of aristotelian structure--e.g. the principle of plentitude, that all things have their place, and diversity improves the overall quality (hence john winthrop, edmund burke, and the whole conservative discourse up through today's trumpites and alt-right--see corey robin's "reactionary mind" for a pretty good analysis here)--that goes unnoticed by nietzsche himself.

where did you read/encounter nietzsche? are you a "nietzschean" by temperament?

>>9041910
ima respond one last time, just to correct your absurdity for my own musing: you seem to think that one should take the same careful dedication to reading your posts/figuring out who you are in an anonymous context that one takes to reading nietzsche. this is a silly assumption, and i assure you my time has been better spent "interpreting" that "text" than it has been/will be engaging anything you have written/will write. i'm pretty sure we're done here, as you have yet to say anything substantive in rebuttal--and i imagine you never will, as you are incapable of doing so meaningfully, originally, or with even an ounce of academic rigor.