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Beyond ‘Beyond Good and Evil’
Recently, I finished reading a novel, The Far Pavilions, by M.M. Kaye, set in 19th century India. Its hero is a young British officer with a dual identity. He’s been raised as an Indian child after his English parents died … Continue reading →
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Tagged 19th century India, a denatured life, a life denatured, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", absolutism vs. relativism, adaptive skills, authenticity and immorality, authenticity and liberation, authenticity and modernity, authenticity and postmodernism, awareness of evil, British officer in India, Brooklyn College Philosophy Department, career troubles, children of mixed acculturation, curing evil, double identities, evil and denial, evil and excuses, evil and personal responsibility, evil and self-promotion, evil as cure for failure, exorcism vs voluntary wickedness, exorcist vs voluntary evil, expectations of others, exposing a villain, exposing wickedness, finding one’s path in life, freedom from moral constraints, Friedrich Nietzsche, giving evil free rein, guilt and innocence, heroes and villains, hopeless condemnations, irrelevant moralizing, judgment re good and evil, judgment vs. judgmentalism, literary evil vs real evil, losers and winners, losing grip on one’s story, losing one's way in life, malevolence in a student, manipulative moralizing, moral absolutism and moral relativism, moral accuracy, moral condemnation and bullying, moral condemnation and childhood, moral decision, moral judgment, moral judgment and hypocrisy, neutrality about evil, Nietzsche and authenticity, Nietzsche and Freud, Nietzsche and social constraints, Nietzsche Freud and Heidegger, Nietzsche in adolescence, Nietzsche philosophizing beyond good and evil, Nietzsche philosophizing outside moral constraints, Nietzsche playing with evil, Nietzsche's adolescence, Nietzsche’s dark theology, Nietzsche’s intellectual influence, ordinary failure, ordinary success, philosophy in higher ed, philosophy majors, physical vs psychological threat, pulling moral rank, rationalizing wickedness, real evil, reversing moral categories, romantic troubles, social know-how, social skills and flexibility, succeeding at evil, Sue Prideaux's I Am Dynamite! A Life of Nietzsche, the choice of evil, The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye, the way of evil, unfair accusations, you don’t win every round
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World History and Me
World History and Me Last night I watched a documentary about the “discovery” by Europeans of the Western Hemisphere – that vast tract of land between Europe and the India that the spice-hunters sought. In my childhood, that discovery was … Continue reading →
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