AGENDA
- Nietzsche...how to live, morality, God
- return exams, make a few comments
- talk to Happiness group
- Next time: Confucius, The Analects
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HOW HE WRITES
PDF35 381 "On the question of being understandable"
He writes for the "nobler spirits" and wants to "erect barriers to 'the others'"
When we interpret we shouldn't think of what we extract as like a nut inside a shell, where the shell is simply thrown away
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PDF8 270 (R) "What does your conscience say? You shall become the person you are."
PDF9 276 (R) "For the new year"
Amor fati...being a yes-sayer
PDF10 283 (R) "Preparatory human beings"
List of desirable characteristics...Nietzschean virtues!
PDF11 284 (R) "Faith in oneself"
PDF14 290 (R) "One thing is needful"
Use all your characteristics to create who you are (Examples...Elon Musk's autism, Greta Thunberg's autism)
PDF16 324 "in media vita"
PDF24 341 (R most of this) "The greatest weight"
How would impact you to live as if "eternal recurrence" were true?
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REJECTION OF CONVENTIONAL MORALITY
PDF3 116 "Herd instinct"
If morality is just the code needed by a particular society, it isn't binding, it has no serious force
PDF4 117 "Herd remorse"
PDF5 119 "No altruism!" Don't be a function
PDF16 325 (R) "What belongs to greatness"
Read footnote!
PDF 20 338 (R) "The will to suffer and those who feel pity"
Hedonists: happiness is good, misery is bad
Nietzsche: it's more complicated. (Think back on a time when you were suffering. Did the suffering actually color your experience in some valuable way?)
PDF28 345 (R) "Morality as a problem"
PDF 31 352 (R) "How morality is scarcely dispensable"
Morality is like fancy clothing that hides people's imperfections
PDF 33 359 (R) "The revenge against the spirit and other ulterior motives of morality"
Higher people can throw off the clothing of morality; lower people have nothing to put in its place
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EMANCIPATION FROM RELIGION (we didn't discuss)
PDF6 125 "The madman"
Madman runs through the street saying we have killed God....and then says "I have come too early...my time is not yet." Why is it too early for this news? What does the whole section mean?
PDF11 285 (R) "Excelsior"
"perhaps man will rise even higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god"
PDF26 343 (R) "The meaning of our cheerfulness"
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Exams
On the whole, really impressive!
Preparing for Exam 2 -- all the elements of this course get you ready to do well
- Do the reading
- Do the reading response...yourself, no AI!
- Come to class...including on Fridays!
- Review the blog posts before exam
- Review your own RRs before exam, including comments
- Get ready to write with specificity
