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Re: aimless and arbitrary

Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 2:35 pm
by Kuznetzova
mickthinks wrote: The trouble with passing off other people's words as your own (thanks for admitting that finally) is that the real author is not here to answer for them.
At least one person here recognized the author before I revealed him.

mickthinks wrote: Nietzsche makes it sound in the OP like that is something to regret or be despondent about, as if he thought he or humanity in general would be happier or better off if "something" were to "happen".
This is why we are in the Aesthetics.

Re: aimless and arbitrary

Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 9:29 pm
by mickthinks
This [Nietzsche's apparent despondency] is why we are in the Aesthetics.

Can anyone else make sense of what Kuznetzova is saying here?

Re: aimless and arbitrary

Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 12:38 am
by Kuznetzova
Birth of Tragedy. Read it.