MDDM Ch. 72 philosophy is for everyone

[Otto]

owen wrote:
my point is: philosophy everywhere - good; bastardized
and misunderstood philosophy everywhere - bad.

Who decides what philosophy is bastardized & misunderstood and what is not?

Please tell me what you think of Derrida as found in the writings of
Jonathan Culler.

Impressive log that you've got:
http://www.thestranger.org/archive.php?entryID=199

But I'm afraid that just quoting Nietzsche where he says the famous & often
misunderstood "God is dead" doesn't clear it up why you believe that
Nietzsche is a "Christian prophet", at least not to me. Of course I haven't
read *all* of Nietzsche but enough (I believe) to assert that he rejects all
metaphysics as fake, which is why he has become one of the "founding
fathers" of postmodernism.

"Im Traum glaubte der Mensch in den Zeitaltern roher uranfänglicher Kultur
eine zweite reale Welt kennenzulernen; hier ist der Ursprung aller
Metaphysik. Ohne den Traum hätte man keinen Anlaß zu einer Scheidung der
Welt gefunden. Auch die Zerlegung in Seele und Leib hängt mit der ältesten
Auffassung des Traumes zusammen, ebenso die Annahme eines
Seelenscheinlebens, also die Herkunft alles Geisterlebens und wahrscheinlich
auch des Götterglaubens. «Der Tote lebt fort, denn er erscheint dem Lebenden
im Traum»: so schloß man ehedem, durch viele Jahrtausende hindurch."
(Nietzsche, Menschliches, Allzumenschliches, Erstes Hauptstück: Von den
Ersten und Letzten Dingen, Nr. 5 -- and read no. 9 as well)

"Misunderstanding of the dream.- The man of the ages of barbarous primordial
culture believed that in the dream he was getting to know a second real
world: here is the origin of all metaphysics. Without the dream, one would
have had no occasion to divide the world into two. The dissection into soul
and body is also connected with the oldest idea of the dream, likewise the
postulation of a life of the soul ["Seelenscheinleib"], thus the origin of
all beliefs in spirits and probably also of the belief in gods. "The dead
live on, for they appear to the living in dreams": that was the conclusion
one formerly drew, throughout many millennia."
http://www.geocities.com/thenietzschechannel/human1.htm#first

-- where he seems to say that the origin of all religions & metaphysics
"probably" is the dream.

glad to have you on the p-list.

Otto
(cabdriver, webmaster, literary theorist and hobby-philosopher)

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