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Seymour
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Date Joined Jan 2002
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| Posted 4/3/2002 6:28 AM (GMT -6) |   |
I’ve been listening to Nietzsche lectures on tape by Dr. Robert Solomon and Dr. Kathleen Higgins two wonderful Nietzsche scholars who just happen to be married to each other. Solomon has a great lecture about Nietzsche’s fears for humanity after the death of God and the need for a new myth to replace it with in order for humanity to survive. He quotes the despair of Ivan Karamazov who laments that “If there is no God then everything is permissible.” And asks ‘can humanity survive without God to anchor our morals’?
But reading the paper lately I’ve been asking the opposite question. With Palestinians killing Israelites and Israelites killing Palestinians, and fundamentalist Muslims fighting the U.S. lead by fundamentalist Christians I have to wonder if our belief in God is what will end up killing off humanity.
Which is more dangerous? The wars that belief in God creates, or the wars that the death of God creates?
EMILY: “Oh, earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?--every, every minute?”
STAGE MANAGER: “No. The saints and poets, maybe--they do some.”
Edited by - Seymour on 04/03/2002 11:30:00 AM | | Back to Top | | |
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