Eric Drass’s paintings highlight philosophers and scientists with animals, the brutality of the corporate world, and the macabre in morality.
4 Kinds of Irony and Nietzsche. An Excerpt From My Dissertation
May 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
A peek inside my dissertation! I love this stuff about irony that I worked out in this section. Irony is such a generally ill-explicated subject. I wanted to blog about it today but decided I had already done it well enough in my dissertation and didn’t want to put in a ton of work to replicate what I had already come up with. Tell me what you think!
Of Nihilists Mourning Their Christian Soul Mates
March 18, 2013 By 11 Comments
I think I’ve hit on an ideal analogy for explaining a core reason why I, following Nietzsche before me, reject nihilism about meaning, values, truth, purpose, and love.
This is going to be a key go-to post for me from now on both for explaining my views when asked about nihilism in general or specifically about how atheists can have meaning, value, purpose, truth, and love.
Hegel, I Goethe Goethe Have You ‘Cause I Nietzsche Nietzsche Nietzsche So Bad
December 13, 2012 By 5 Comments
A charmingly silly song composed with many German philosophers’ last names by J. Boor: Even apart from the novelty value, it’s a catchy tune in the vein of Stephen Merritt of the Magnetic Fields. Buy the song for just a dollar and/or read the lyrics here. Casey Charllotte Carr comments in the spirit of the [...]
How I Deconverted: Nietzsche Caused A Gestalt Shift For Me (But Didn’t Inspire “Faith”)
September 16, 2012 By 16 Comments
For some time now, I have been writing the story of how I went from being a devout Evangelical Christian to being an atheist. I always mention, even the shortest descriptions of my deconversion that reading The Portable Nietzsche was instrumental in my deconversion. I read it May 17-27, 1999 and I wrestled with Nietzsche through [...]
“The Surest Way To Corrupt A Youth” (And Other Philosophical Posters)
September 1, 2012 By 3 Comments
Maxistentialism is selling some appealing philosophy posters. I was most pleased to see that out of all the quotable things Nietzsche said, they chose one of my very favorites, as evidenced by its inclusion on a recent list of some of my favorite quotes as pulled from my Facebook profile. “The surest way to corrupt [...]
Justice, Order, and Chaos: The Dialectical Tensions In Batman Begins and The Dark Knight
July 20, 2012 By 29 Comments
In this post I am going to explore the moral themes from the first two films of the Dark Knight trilogy. This post gives away nothing about The Dark Knight Rises but assumes knowledge of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. In a subsequent post I will explore how The Dark Knight Rises picks up, advances, augments, and culminates these folllowing themes from the first two films of the Dark Knight trilogy.
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