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provis99

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9. if there isn't, then any fool can claim to be an expert.

Reply to Jim__ (Reply #8)

Wed Feb 8, 2012, 09:50 PM

Feb 2012

After all, it's simply a matter of "interpretation".

I've seen "experts" on Nietzsche who claimed that even Nietzsche didn't know what his own philosophy was, while they did. Post-modernists are particularly notorious for this kind of dishonest fraud.

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Nietzsche's passionate atheism was the making of me [View all] rug Feb 2012 OP

a lot of people quote Nietzche DonCoquixote Feb 2012 #1

"God is dead" was a social observation. ZombieHorde Feb 2012 #2

what a moron. provis99 Feb 2012 #3

Actually, Giles Fraser is an expert on Nietzsche. Jim__ Feb 2012 #5

if he can't interpret Nietzsche right, then he's not an expert. provis99 Feb 2012 #6

"... he can't interpret Nietzsche right ..." Jim__ Feb 2012 #8

if there isn't, then any fool can claim to be an expert. provis99 Feb 2012 #9

Whether there is or isn't, anyone *can* claim to be an expert, but claiming doesn't make it so. Jim__ Feb 2012 #10

Good read. napoleon_in_rags Feb 2012 #4

Your 'bifurcation of the culture' seems to only apply to the right muriel_volestrangler Feb 2012 #12

Yeah, its clearest on the right. napoleon_in_rags Feb 2012 #13

"Leap of faith" tama Feb 2012 #14

"Apes don't read philosophy" opiate69 Feb 2012 #7

+1 FarCenter Feb 2012 #11