Monthly Archives: May 2015

What do you know? Just as I was sitting here marshaling the arguments against the prospect of a gag-me-with-a-spoon Huckabee presidency, Michael Hamar was pointing toward a WSJ/NBC poll which finds that Americans are far more comfortable with the idea … Continue reading →

Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed HithertoIII: General Remarks on Morality §298   “Morality for its own sake” — an important step in the denaturalisation of morals: in itself it appears as a final value. … Continue reading →

Clearly, I was wasting my time when I selected those geophysics electives. Promiscuous women cause earthquakes, claims Iranian cleric

Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed HithertoIII: General Remarks on Morality §297   The vestiges of the depreciation of Nature through moral transcendence: The value of disinterestedness, the cult of altruism; the belief in a … Continue reading →

Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed HithertoIII: General Remarks on Morality §296   The great crimes in psychology. That all pain and unhappiness should have been falsified by being associated with what is wrong (guilt). … Continue reading →