Curious about the ways humans use their minds and hearts to distract themselves from the meaninglessness of life.
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I think they are both right.
Russell sees what any clear-headed person sees, and it is the most obvious and most damning critique of Nz the man and Nz’s philosophy of the Übermensch – Nz is ‘small-souled’.
But Heidegger is right too, Nz culminates metaphysics in a magnificent philosophy of freedom (this is, if you know your Heidegger, a really backhanded compliment, and might more accurately be described as a criticism!).
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I think they are both right.
Russell sees what any clear-headed person sees, and it is the most obvious and most damning critique of Nz the man and Nz’s philosophy of the Übermensch – Nz is ‘small-souled’.
But Heidegger is right too, Nz culminates metaphysics in a magnificent philosophy of freedom (this is, if you know your Heidegger, a really backhanded compliment, and might more accurately be described as a criticism!).
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