Misleading Human Rights
As a matter of logic, human rights are universal. As a matter of fact, they are not. That conclusion is not drawn from the interminable recurrence of…
More or Less: Utopia as a Meditation on Human Nature
Introduction Even a perfunctory read of Utopia is likely to give one pause. Included in More’s “truly golden handbook” are incongruities too glaring to escape notice—incongruities between…
On the Foundations of Western Civilization
With customary severity, Nietzsche counselled his readers, “Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity…
Into the Abyss: A Semester with Nietzsche
My first encounter with Nietzsche I cannot recall. The story I like to tell myself, or at least would like to tell you, is that it happened…