What have you been reading lately?

My philosophy texts and Plato. Can't wait till the semester is over so i can enjoy some "fluff" reading.... I love Patricia Cornwell; as well as the Sue Grafton series (M is for Murder, etc.. my respite family has the latest one waiting for me as i am working for them this weekend!)

Oh? What philosophy texts would they be? I love reading philosophy - I just got done with a batch from Kant and nibbled a bit from Nietzsche ("Thus spoke Zarathustra - probably one of his most misunderstood works).

Nietzsche was a vain idiot. Very little of his pessimistic mantra has any connection with the real world. In his case, if perception is reality, HE can have his reality.

I prefer mine.

Oh wait, the little twerp is dead and for him, there was no reality after that. So, he can't have ANYTHING. Too bad, so sad.

So, his future being of amor fati can have it. But then, it would be mean to wish for 1. lack of contemporary respect, 2. mental breakdown and 3. young death on his eternal recurrence.

Whether or not God is dead is a matter of faith and debate. One thing for certain: Nietzsche is dead.

I see nothing inherently noble OR heroic about taking a stand against the morals of society for the sheer measure of it. And a philosophical argument that only those whose values are at odds w/ society can truly be free is quite elitist: if widely embraced, it would lead to chaos and disorder. Either that, or the remaking of society in the übermenschliche's new value system - thereby turning hero into slave master.

I happen to think there are benefits to being civilized. Turning my values over to someone who's very value system is the repudiation of values would be like electing a Democrat to the White House. (That was a joke.)

(I fully admit to not reading much nietzsche. I couldn't stand his tripe. But I did read enough. As someone once said, you don't have to eat all the poop to figure out what it is.)

~faith,
Timothy.

Lets not turn this into a "Debate Nietzsche" thread now

Of course not, I was just tweaking you a bit.

Back to your regularly scheduled thread. . .

~faith,
Timothy.

Anything by Mercedes Lackey. There are about 30 or so books in the Valdemar series, the first triology is Arrows of the Queen. She writes with very strong female leads. She has also started writing "fairy tales", set in England of the 1800s, one is a Cinderella, another Sleeping Beauty, Wild Swan, etc. for adults. Really good fiction.