phlogma

Capital punishment and barbarization

Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1889, Kaufmann translation, “What I Owe to the Ancients”, sec. 4:
…. Eternal life, the eternal return of life; the future promised and hallowed in the past; the triumphant Yes to life beyond all death and change; true life as the overall continuation of life through procreation, through the mysteries of […]

In the following oblique philosophical rant, occasioned by nihilist/distractionist George (whose views can seem bleaker even than Luno’s), Luno reveals his own lively obsession with dividing up the moral world in two, one part governed by a feminine, the other by a (you guessed it!) masculine imperative. —Ed. note.
 
(Distractionist) GEORGE:
It would seem any moral theory […]

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GEORGE:
Ultimately, what possible difference could it make to understand why Weininger did what he did…or to speculate on What It Means? If [Luno] were sitting in a doctor’s office listening to her explain to him why he only has a few days to live…would he be thinking about Weininger’s suicide?
Actually, I […]