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How are you promoting real culture?
From "Schopenhauer as educator" ... posted 3w ago with 1 reply 7 7

How are you promotin 7 7

what a great quote. I've been very struck by the idea of the philosopher, not always under that name, for a long time. The philosopher is the being that strives to comprehend his own nature, the law of nature, and his role in the cosmic story, and achieves... 3w ago 7 7

what a great quote. 7 7

The Structure of Exoteric Ideology
Zero HP Lovecraft wrote a series of post called "Toward a Functionalist Understanding of Religion" that culminated in a proposal for a "Christian-Nietzschean" synthesis. I'm not much interested in the latter. However, in the first post in the series, he sk... posted 14mo ago with 5 replies 5 5

The Structure of Exo 5 5

I like this reframing. It's very much in the spirit of what I was thinking when I (re)posted the reference. 14mo ago 2 2

I like this reframin 2 2

Nietzsche - Homer's Contest
https://archive.org/details/NietzscheHomersContest/mode/2up ... posted 14mo ago with 5 replies 10 10

Nietzsche - Homer's 10 10

Yeah there's a phase shift with Plato to philosophy as a self-conscious program and type, with a politics. Alamariu points out tyranny and proto-philosophy existed for a while pre-plato, but true philosophy only really comes into being with xenophon and th... 14mo ago 3 3

Yeah there's a phase 3 3