Subject: Re: Nietzsche and the Philosophes
From: Gene (pariah1980@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jun 30 2000 - 18:35:19 GMT
Thanks a bunch for the recommendations Josh(and
everyone else who threw in their 2 cents worth), I'll
be sure to check them out sometime.:)
Joshua wrote:
> The way I see philosophy, the more you know, the
> better you'll
> understand whatever else you'll read. In fact, I'd
> say that this axiom
> is generally applicable to the world, but especially
> philosophy... So
> if you read any Kant, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes,
> Augustine, Hegel,
> Aquinas, you'll be getting a good background. After
> Descartes, Kant,
> and Hegel, you're entering into very much more
> specialized philosophies
> that will draw on these common backgrounds, but
> sometimes are radical
> and very-non-intuitively-connected (to use a
> Heideggarish
> connect-my-ideas-by-a-string-of-hyphenated-terms) to
> the classics.
Has anyone ever noticed how Plato is very punk
rock/D.I.Y./maybe even a little "straight edge"? The
way he denounces love of money, hypocrisy, etc... and
his run-in with the law. Though I do think he may have
been a little of a mysoginist(spelling?), but then
again, who wasn't back then? The accusations that he
was a corrupter of youth seems similar to the media
attention that music, films, and art sometimes get
today in the media: Jello Biafra, Eminem, Tupac,
Marilyn Manson, Trent Reznor, "American Beauty", to
name a few, and of course there's "Catcher in the Rye".
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