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Values 2: Human reason is reactive

Previously I wrote about Nietzsche’s assertion that philosophers must create values, and a distinction between scholars, scientists and philosophers was made. The focus now shifts to the faculty of reason and its contrast with another mode of thinking. Reason can be understood as man’s ability to think according to precise rules. Logic is one such […]

Posted 27 January 2011 † johan § Philosophy ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: , , , , , , ,

Values 1: Philosophy, science, and their relationship

This is hopefully the start of a short series of posts in which I attempt to relate the concepts of value and value creation, in particular as they were understood by Friedrich Nietzsche, to the modern world, in some kind of way. Comments of all kinds are encouraged! In the beginning (understood as ancient Greece), […]

Posted 18 January 2011 † johan § Computer science § Philosophy ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,