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throw4847285 3 hours ago

This is one of those rare cases where I believe young men would benefit from reading more Nietzsche.

"Do you want to live 'according to nature'? O you noble Stoics, what a verbal swindle! Imagine a being like nature - extravagant without limit, indifferent without limit, without purposes and consideration, without pity and justice, simultaneously fruitful, desolate, and unknown - imagine this indifference itself as a power - how could you live in accordance with this indifference? Living - isn't that precisely a will to be something different from what this nature is? Isn't living appraising, preferring, being unjust, being limited, wanting to be different?"

svat an hour ago | parent | next [-]

This is quoted (and addressed) near the beginning of the article (paragraphs 3 to 6), for what it's worth.

throw4847285 6 minutes ago | parent [-]

Well that's what I get for commenting before reading the article. A nasty habit.

Well now that I've read that part of the article, I can say that it's a pretty lame retort.

willmarch 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This just shows that Nietzsche did not understand stoicism on any deep level

recursive 40 minutes ago | parent [-]

If that's true, then what hope does anyone else have?