[ SECRET POST #3330 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3330 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Uchuu Kyoudai (Space Brothers)]


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[Roald Dahl]


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[X-Files, "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster"]


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[Agnus Dei/Les Innocentes]


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[Whitechapel, DC Emerson Kent]


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[Undertale]


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(Tales from the Borderlands)


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[Steven Universe]


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Comments

Can we laugh back at Zarathustra?

[feotakahari]

I can't stand people who try to work evolution into philosophy without actually understanding how evolution works.

Re: Can we laugh back at Zarathustra?

[(Anonymous)]

Nietzsche wrote Thus Spoke Zarathustra in the late 1800s . No one at the time understood how evolution worked - there was a lot of debate over how it operated, and natural selection was actually a frequently derided concept even amongst actual scientists well into the first few decades of the 20th Century, when the study of genetics really began to take off.

I find a lot of the man's philosophy eyeroll-worthy, but his understanding of evolution was actually pretty in tune with the prevailing theories at the time of his writing.

Re: Can we laugh back at Zarathustra?

[(Anonymous)]

OP
Are you referring to the interpretation that the Übermensch is the next stage in biological human evolution? Because that is merely one of several interpretations of the philosophy. Personally I see the struggle to self-overcome as the meat of Nietzsche's work. The Übermensch is as concrete a promise as heaven is for Christians; it's a source of hope, the anchor for ambition, the cornerstone of culture, the carrot that keeps Nietzsche/Zarathustra/mankind(?) going despite the yawning abyss of nihilism. Certainly Nietzsche appropriated Darwinist key words to make his point, but in his pseudo-biblical style he writes in parables and metaphors that allow for some pretty liberal interpretations. Which is part of the reason he was so wildly popular -- he's kind of a philosophical Rorschach test, at least for existentialists.