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Hey /lit/ first time poster here. Recently my girlfriend and I got into a fight when I mentioned that feminism was stupid and she went crazy and threatened to tell my parents that I was hitting her after it got pretty heated. After a couple days I settled down and understood that I probably don't know that much about feminism and I promised that I would do some research on the issue.
I had a look at the book catalog but there wasn't anything there so I need some books to read, thanks.
>>8012544
>expecting us to believe you have a gf
>>8012544
personally i would break up with a person who blackmailed me over a feminism dispute
>threatened to tell my parents that I was hitting her
This is all you need to know about feminism. Tell your girlfriend to shove it.
Can someone provide me with some secondary literature dealing with Nietzsche's perception of evil? I'm especially interested on why he prefers abandoning the concept of good and evil for good instead of actually reflecting on the possibility for a radical evil (as an entity) to exist within the world and human nature, and the implicatons of this point of view
>>8012466
>okay guys, instead of recognizing that there are serious flaws in the idea of separating things into good and evil things, let's just double-down on it instead. We'll call it radical.
I wonder...
>>8012472
not personally saying that there are no serious flaws in that idea, but it has been a central idea in philosophy for a great many centuries, and some great philosophy (especially kant) has materialized around that whole dichotomy. Just wondering about Nietzsches argument as to why that is a stupid and useless dichotomy, and what those arguments apply for morality and society
>>8012466
The long and the short of it: Good and evil are just perceptions. There is no such thing as a moral action, only a moral perception of an action. Circumstance and tradition can make even some of the most evil acts acceptable.
For example in Britain there was a case where a bunch of stranded sailors ended up eating a cabinboy which gave them the strength to survive until they were rescued. The courts determined that anyone would have done what they did in their situation, but sentenced them to hang anyways because they ought not to have done it. There was a public outcry over the obvious absurdity of the sentence and it was commuted. Murder (technically, the boy was in a semi-comatose state when they killed him) and cannibalism became in the public perception a morally acceptable act, in part because the men told the truth about it and were quite clearly ashamed.
And of course cannibalism is an acceptable action in other societies. Had Europe developed under different conditions or circumstances cannibalism might have been ethical or even mandatory, as it is among some of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon who viewed the western practice of burying corpses barbaric compared to eating the flesh of their dead kin.
He rejects offhand then that there could be an evil entity. Nietzsche is much more about becoming than being and as such if evil actions do not exist, evil beings do not. We can judge them as such but since we are all wrapped up in our perceptions and how our bodies and cultures shape them, no human could actually identify abject evil even if it were to exist.
How can I, with my crushingly high IQ, and as someone who has fully grasped the implications of the Munchhausen trilemma and has therefore gained the super power / disability of being able to break down everything in to the sum of its spooks, possibly care about working hard or being motivated with regard to anything at all?
>>8012461
Protip: you can't.
>>8012461
>Munchhausen trilemma
I stumbled onto that realization when I was a kid, didn't even have a name for it.
I think you're over-estimating yourself OP.
>>8012461
How about you use your high IQ to figure out what the consequences not doing anything will have for your life?
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