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For my money the four architects of the 20thC never lived in the 20thC: Marx, Darwin, Mill, and Nietsche. What about Freud? He lived IN the 20thC. Freud is the next on the list, for influence. Ah, yes indeed. I thought you were discounting Freud's influence. American culture in particular changed d...

Hobbes' Choice wrote:
For my money the four architects of the 20thC never lived in the 20thC: Marx, Darwin, Mill, and Nietsche.

What about Freud?

by Camus.

Do you think the anti-hero of this story succeeds in affirming that life is worth living?

While his last years of sanity show signs of an over-inflated ego, it doesn't diminish Nietzsche's genius. His writings, so profoundly incisive and acutely critical, with beautiful prose, were the product of severe intelligence and suffering, not madness. Now, should his philosophy be adopted and in...

Given his reputation, I think it's interesting that Nietzsche wasn't uniformly opposed to belief in gods. He seemed to think that illusions are a necessary part of our existence. And the illusory gods of ancient Greece, being human-like, served to invigorate the lives of individuals and enhance the ...

HexHammer wrote:Good waste of time, neither is relevant in modern times, only a lecture in historical garbage!

You're ugly.

Lectures from Ken Gemes. Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London.

Nihilism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0y5-hB0WYs

Truth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWBIFavfCtM