Fundamentalism, Politics, Scientism, and Nietzsche's nihilism
I personally go to an Episcopalian church here in Sacramento, and I was raised as a Lutheran in Northern California. So I am heavily...
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npglazer
- Mar 2
- 3 min
John Keat's negative capability, ambiguity, and Ash Wednesday mortality
John Keats was a poet who lived from 1795 to 1821, so really not a very long time. In this short time though Keats came up with a...
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npglazer
- Dec 15, 2021
- 3 min
Heidegger's Das Man, William James, and the Three Kings of Dissent; Hedges, West, and Chomsky,
One of my favorite philosopher's Martin Heidegger had a concept that he named "Das Man," or the "The They," in his book Being and Time. ...
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npglazer
- Nov 20, 2021
- 2 min
Nihilism and politics as religion
Recently one of my favorite contemporary journalists, Matt Taibbi, wrote an article about how the news and politics is America's new...
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npglazer
- Aug 25, 2021
- 4 min
William James sick souls and Kierkegaard's despair
William James the American pragmatist philosopher in his book "The Varieties of Religious Experience," had a notion of two different...
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npglazer
- Aug 6, 2021
- 3 min
Nietzsche, freedom, and grace
Saying Friedrich Nietzsche was critical of Christianity might be a slight understatement. He thought it was an oppressive, mendacious,...
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npglazer
- Mar 12, 2021
- 2 min
Subjectivity and Witness
Heidegger wrote about the ontology of Dasein in Being and Time. One of the conditions of Dasein's being is that we have "thrownness." ...
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npglazer
- Feb 1, 2021
- 2 min
Love is patient, love is kind
I would never call myself an ethicist since ethics was never my speciality in school. I took a seminar once in grad school though on...
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npglazer
- Jan 7, 2021
- 3 min
Domain dependent virtue and vice
It seems to me that people often think of others as either a virtuous person or a person who is full of vice. What do I mean by this? ...
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npglazer
- Jan 7, 2021
- 1 min
My message to Trump I wrote.
Yesterday January 6, was a shameful day in American history. We had an insurrection happen at Washington D.C. You Donald Trump did...
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npglazer
- Dec 31, 2020
- 2 min
Agency, facticity, capitalism, and prayer
A quick definition of agency is "agency is the capacity of an actor to act in a given environment. Facticity is "something that already...
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npglazer
- Dec 24, 2020
- 2 min
Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and the posthumous genius philosopher.
Life begins in media res, so to speak, or as Heidegger might put it, Daesin has a thrownness towards its "being-in-the-world." As the...
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