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Parker Conley's avatar

Any recommendation for an entry point into his thinking?

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Arjun Panickssery's avatar

Among his texts?

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Parker Conley's avatar

Ya, especially if it could be listened to as an audio book haha

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Ebenezer's avatar

"Why is the flourishing of higher men important? Life is hard to justify with all of its suffering and striving interspersed with brief respites of pointless satisfaction. Nietzsche rescues life only by appeal to the aesthetic spectacle of genius, which he elevates to the most important business, the only thing making life worthwhile."

Imagine making the Halo Effect the entire basis of your philosophy.

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Ebenezer's avatar

"Philosophically, he supports a methodological naturalism where philosophy aspires to be continuous with natural or social scientific inquiry."

Not quite Plain English, if you ask me

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