Tag: Friedrich Nietzsche
Cosmos, Chaos, and a Privileged Address in the Universe
What are we to make of this radical discontinuity between the Earth and the rest of the cosmos?
New Book: Social Darwinism and “The Hitler Problem”
I have clearly argued in all my works that Hitler was an eclectic thinker who drew on many different intellectual influences — some of them contradictory.
Cambridge University Press’s New Book on Social Darwinism: Darwin and Herbert Spencer
The authors admit that Darwin was a racist who promoted racial struggle. They are likely to infuriate quite a few people of varying persuasions.
The Main Argument of The Abolition of Man
Lewis foresees a class of men called “the Conditioners.” The Conditioners have “seen through” all attempts to ground behaviour in any ultimate truth.
That Hideous Strength — C. S. Lewis’s Fantasia of Consciousness at 75
The novel is a narrative, fictional version of a philosophical anatomy of the satanic dimension and implication of much modern history from 1914 onwards.