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Showing posts with label Nietzsche. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Nietzsche. Show all posts

28.1.25

My Journey of Personal Growth: A Forty-something’s Self-Reflection

As a kid, I dreamed of becoming an adult. Join me on a reflective journey of personal transformation—through youth, monastic life, teaching,...

1.7.20

Students Are Off for Summer But Teachers Are Busy Working (Am I Right?)

Dear Followers, Teachers, Lovers, Learners, and Philosophy Sprinkles Makers! Summertime Means Busy-time for Educators (Am I Right?) Bird...

21.4.20

Philosophy in the Classroom: Friedrich Nietzsche's Concept of "Eternal Recurrence" Paired with Groundhog Day — the 90s Movie Starring Bill Murray

Get this lesson and other lessons from my TpT store. In this post, I re-package a previous post I did on Nietzsche's concept of e...

15.9.13

19 Sayings: From Nietzsche Thinking Intensely (Quotable Nietzsche)

In this post, I select 19 quotable sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche Thinking Intensely (image: Flickr/SPDP ) I read "23 Sig...

7.8.13

Friedrich Nietzsche on the Abyss

"Beyond Good and Evil", Aphorism 146 (1886). Decided to rewatch Abyss , the 1989 sci-fi water drama based on a Michael Crich...

26.6.11

Are Philosophers Inspired by the Figure of the Child?

In this post, I discuss one of my favorite topics: how have thinkers, writers, and philosophers been inspired by the figure of the child?...

26.11.10

Philosophy Thought Experiment: Nietzsche's Allegory of the Demon

Friedrich Nietzsche's most famous articulation of eternal recurrence of the same is imagined as a thought experime...

17.10.10

Quotation: Nietzsche's The Gay Science

We philosophers are not free to divide body from soul as the people do; we are even less free to divide soul from spirit. We are not th...

28.9.10

What does Nietzsche Mean by God is Dead (and why German Romanticism is not Cool, Dude)

Kid: Dude, Nietzsche is cool. Nietzsche: No, I'm not. Kid: Dude, that's not cool. Nietzsche: Hey, kid, watch out what you sa...

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