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ENTP versus intj

Different domains. As long as the control of the domain is not interfered with, both can win at their own games.

As an ENTP, I tend to take into consideration external patterns, and the feelings people have about embracing these external patterns.

American censorship

I love it. But Twain was in a sense too optimistic as travel is not always the answer. Or rather nothing beats being a local yokel and experiencing things from the ground.

For the love of Jordan Peterson

So, a major shift that has happened in the past decade or so is that there has been movement away from troubling oneself with complexity. At the forefront of this movement is Jordan Peterson, who sees the problem from a psychological viewpoint, but not from a philosophical one.

How #Nietzsche saved me!

APES IN CAPES!

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On willful misunderstanding and A.I.

Mikael Fant

· 8h

Oh, that’s what really gets you in the end, all that intelligent, or rather cunning, misunderstanding being practised bloody everywhere, at every level. The stupidity is bad enough, but this at least straightforward most of the time.

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What part of being a psychologist harmed your personal mind?

Jennifer Armstrong

studied object relations psychology extensively3m

Well I’m not a psychologist.

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out of fashion again?

Well postmodernism was an attempt to deal with the irrational nature of existence, particularly the sense that there were now too many moral principles, counter-weaving and contradicting one another.

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Painter, Sculpt, PhD African lit, author, performance artistJust now

Well

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What did Nietzsche think about meta-languages?

Jennifer Armstrong

studied Nietzsche since 1996Just now

Nietzsche was very interested in how language works.

I am just my biology

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Jennifer Armstrong

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This is a wonderful elucidation of the new ideology, "I am just my

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How does Nietzsche's idea of the will to power differ from that of Freud?

Jennifer Armstrong

studied Nietzsche since 1996Just now

It’s actually very different indeed.

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Has the Internet had a net positive or negative effect on society?

Jennifer Armstrong

Studied sociology and philosophy12m

It probably is neither.

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Elvis Kirincic

· 10m

From everything you've stated, it seems that he didn't even have the kind of potential that history gives him, and honestly, his end isn't even surprising.

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The majority

Do you think Friedrich Nietzsche's idea of the "Übermensch" is a positive or negative vision for humanity? Profile photo for Jennifer Armstrong Jennifer Armstrong studied Nietzsche since 1996Just now I think it is intended as a compensatory vision for humanity. The problem here is the idea of “progress”, because it leads us downwards. “Truth” also leads us in a similar direction, toward more revelatory trauma. The fact is that we humans have invested heavily in what is destined to be the exact wrong areas in which to invest our thoughts, time and knowledge. Although we have not necessarily realized it yet, investment in “truth” ultimately leads to the realization that life, itself, is utterly horrible and traumatic, and ought not to be continued. We ought to finish with life, never to return to it again. (This is the result of the most rigorous thought, which takes things on a whole.) Currently, the direction of our contemporary cultural development is more, and more toward this “truth”. And fundamentally, as Nietzsche has pointed out, this is truth as such. The psychotherapists and the left wing agitators, and virtually everybody else, all urge us to become “more sensitive”, and less inclined to put up walls between ourselves and other fellow sufferers. But what this does is, instead of reducing the amount of suffering, increases it a thousand-fold. All the more when there are agitators at the door demanding that we express “empathy”. As Nietzsche predicted, the inevitable trajectory of humankind is, in this sense, downward, toward an increasing sensitivity toward pain. The ultimate conclusion of this process will be in the sentiment that “life is not worth living — it has to be escaped in some way.” Mind you, this is the conclusion of those who are most astute. So, according to Nietzsche, the principle of adhering to “truth” is going to lead the majority in a downward path, to endure a much greater sensitivity to pain, and to fear making creative paths and solutions because they seem automatically “false”. To Nietzsche, and to those who see the writing on the wall, this is quite a depressing outcome. But, what if there really is a creative solution to this inevitable downslide into heightened pain and sensitivity? What if there is a redemptive factor that rises above the morass? Nietzsche’s idea of the “overman” is clearly intended as such a creative outcome, which is also a positive solution for humanity.

Do you think Friedrich Nietzsche's idea of the "Übermensch" is a positive or negative vision for humanity?

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I think it is intended as a compensatory vision for humanity.

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"To think, it is often better not to understand, for one can gallop

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So you really want to lean into my brain and borrow from my knowledge? Let’s hope you are grateful for it then, because too many things are a waste of time.

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Harry Quinlan

· 6h

If Nietzsche thought “culture was everything” then unfortunately he is provably wrong.

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Jennifer Armstrong

Painter, Sculpt, PhD African lit, author, performance artist0y

So there is a statistical and social middle band of people, that is actually very large indeed, since they occupy the place of the satirical norm in terms of the po

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What does the will direct itself towards? Is it just power as Nietzsche says? How is power understood in this context?

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An interesting post, Jennifer.

Why did Nietzsche hate Socrates? What did Socrates do to deserve this treatment by Nietzsche (if anything)? Profile photo for Jennifer Armstrong Jennifer Armstrong studied Nietzsche since 19960y Nietzsche was, above all things, a psychologist. As a philosopher he was interested in exposing the link between various styles of psychology, and what he called “will to power” — or what we more generally know as “politics”. This is vital to understand if one is not to see him as making vain or unrelated statements about things. If we can understand this key point, then we can understand a further point. It’s not that Nietzsche “hated” Socrates, but that he saw in him a particular kind of will to power that he didn’t like. In the case of Socrates, there was a will to bring other people down to one’s own level, using what is called “dialectics”. I think we have all come across people with whom we would rather not enter a dialogue, because their style of thinking goes along the lines of, “You need to prove to me that you are not an idiot, or else I am going to assume that you are one!” This is what Nietzsche didn’t like about Socrates. He thought it was low class; a kind of assault on the integrity of other people, who may have been perfectly fine and honest, or decent, but they just didn’t have the right words to defend themselves. Socrates, however, used “dialectics” to make these people doubt that they already had a basis for meaning to their lives. He made them feel foolish, and as if they had to change track in order to become truly “wise”. 1 view

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Nietzsche was, above all things, a psychologist.

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Musa Muhammed

· 23m

The overman would be better off creating his own society or cult than trying to influence an existing one same with the last man.

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Sean O'Donovan

· 6h

Why should one listen to anyone? That would be to imply that one is unable to cope with modern life and that some self-appointed “expert” can.

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