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Ideas for 'Are Persons Bodies?', 'Twilight of the Idols' and 'Ethics of the Concern for Self as Freedom'

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1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought
18330 Judging by the positive forces, the Renaissance was the last great age [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: Ages are to be assessed by their positive forces - and by this assessment the age of the Renaissance, so prodigal and so fateful, appears as the last great age.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 8.37)
     A reaction: I suspect that Nietzsche places art very high among the positive forces. Science and technology showed barely a glimmer during the Renaissance. Mathematics moved very little, Copernicus was ignored, and logic was static.
1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / b. Pre-Socratic philosophy
2900 I revere Heraclitus [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: I set apart with high reverence the name of Heraclitus.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 2.2)
1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / c. Classical philosophy
2913 Thucydides was the perfect anti-platonist sophist [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: My recreation, my preference, my cure from all Platonism has always been Thucydides. …Sophist culture, by which I mean realist culture, attains in him its perfect expression.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 9.2)
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy
2909 Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 7.7)
     A reaction: Nice. At its deepest level thinking isn't a rational process?
1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined
7426 Critical philosophy is what questions domination at every level [Foucault]
     Full Idea: In its critical aspect, philosophy is that which calls into question domination at every level
     From: Michel Foucault (Ethics of the Concern for Self as Freedom [1984], p.300)
     A reaction: A very French view of the subject. It is tempting to say that they had their adolescent outburst in 1789, and it is time to grow up. With rights come responsibilities...
1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems
2892 Wanting a system in philosophy is a lack of integrity [Nietzsche]
     Full Idea: I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. The will to system is a lack of integrity.
     From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], Maxim 26)
1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy
7423 Philosophy and politics are fundamentally linked [Foucault]
     Full Idea: The relationship between philosophy and politics is permanent and fundamental.
     From: Michel Foucault (Ethics of the Concern for Self as Freedom [1984], p.293)
     A reaction: This idea is one of the biggest gulfs between continental and analytical philosophy. Many aspects of philosophy are turning out to be much more social than analytical philosophers might have thought - epistemology, for example.