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Anti-Humanism and the Battle Against Ethical Universalism

If humanism can be defined as a normative point of departure that prioritizes human concerns, interests and flourishing and focuses on the faculties that separate human beings from other animals,…

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12 min

Philosophy

Nietzsche on Politics as Nihilism: A Response to Matt McManus

How could a political innovation suffice to turn men once and for all into contented inhabitants of the earth? If anyone really does believe in this possibility, he ought to…

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11 min

Philosophy

On Left and Right Nietzscheanism

Mankind can only now begin to hope again, now that I have lived. Thus I am necessarily a man of Destiny. For when Truth battles against the lies of millennia…

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9 min

Philosophy

Why Is Reason Controversial?

Reason, again, is solely directed to the attainment of truth, and careless of money and reputation. In accordance with the difference of men’s natures, one of these three principles is…

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8 min

Psychology

Since it became part of the zeitgeist of nineteenth-century Europe, nihilism has been blamed for virtually every atrocity committed by an unsound individual. This “philosophy of nothing” concludes that our…

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Nietzsche

Anti-Humanism and the Battle Against Ethical Universalism

Nietzsche on Politics as Nihilism: A Response to Matt McManus

On Left and Right Nietzscheanism

Why Is Reason Controversial?

The Moral Case for Nihilism

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