Month: July 2015

• July 6, 2015

  Philosophy ‘Puts Everything in Danger’

  A commentator on Sun Tzu’s The Art of War writes, “Everyone likes security and dislikes danger; everyone wants to live and fears death.” Nietzsche in Ecce Homo describes the philosopher — and here he is thinking of himself, of the Dionysian philosopher par excellence — as “a terrible explosive which puts everything in danger.” There are hindrances to entering…
• July 2, 2015

  ‘How We Become who We are’: Part 3

  Remember our guiding intuition, so basic as to be almost a second skin? It is that you and I want to make something of ourselves. We also say–and mean the same thing–that we want to do something with ourselves. An astonishing intuition! Last time, I wrote about one assumption that rests quietly beneath this intuition. It…