Peter Schuller on Nietzsche and logos

Loading...

Sign in or sign up now!
Alert icon
Upgrade to the latest Flash Player for improved playback performance. Upgrade now or more info.
1,872
Loading...
Alert icon
Sign in or sign up now!
Alert icon

Uploaded by on Mar 20, 2007

Nietzsche vs. natural logos

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

License:

Standard YouTube License

  • likes, 6 dislikes

Link to this comment:

Share to:
see all

All Comments (15)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • If you want to go beyond Nietzsche, Aristotle did a long time before Nietzsche ever came on the scene. He thought the universe, including humans were rational and this lead to him believing things like, it rains so that plants can grow and other such non-sense.

    Ironically, viewing the universe as chaotic (which, I believe modern physics is showing the universe is more and more, i.e. quarks) is the most natural view to take on the universe. 

  • I think he draws the correct inference, but the truth is too difficult to bear: thus logos. We need it, desperately.

  • I'm going to go ahead and call bullshit half way into this thing. There doesn't have to be reason in physics. There are many example in the universe that defy physics. Reason is still a human invention. It's like a secondary understanding of something. It's grappling with something in order to relate.

  • Peter is a sophist, and a much less graceful one than what he accuses Nietzsche of being. "without reason, the world would collapse into absurdity" is hardly an argument. He certainly speaks of the 'fear of not knowing,' but this is simply another will. Human reason is an attempt to causally link consequence to desire; 'taking our place in the cosmos' is an analytic's attempt to sound cool, not a premise. The will to truth and fear is certainly more superficial than the will to power.

  • Yes, Schuller is logocentric. Above, I said 'Schuller advocates logocentrism'. Do you not understand?

  • Perspective on WHAT? Or do you claim there is no WHAT? And aren't you implicitly granting that the cosmos, from your (and others' perspectivalism) DOES collapse into perspectivalism?

  • Or are you a dualist: 1) Reason 2) "Fight", reality, power? NOT EVERYONE IS. Many, many identify reason and generating. And are hylozoic monists.

  • Schuller IS logocentric. Are you just calling him with a dirty name? And is the only kind of successful response a "fight"?

  • There have been successful planned revolutions--and I do not mean coups d'etat. SO people have known how to do more than extrapolate within a regimen of items but to create a new--and better--one. That's a bit of extended articulation.

  • "But the cosmos is an extended articulation",well,thats one perspective I suppose.:-)

Loading...

Alert icon
0 / 00Unsaved Playlist Return to active list
    1. Your queue is empty. Add videos to your queue using this button:
      or sign in to load a different list.
    Loading...Loading...Saving...
    • Clear all videos from this list
    • Learn more