Gathatoulie

And of these shall I speak to those eager, That quality of wisdom that all the wise wish And call creative qualities And good creation of the mind The all-powerful truth Truly and that more & better ways are discovered Towards perfection --Zarathustra.

Friday, November 29, 2013

viciousness

«Aristotle requires the vicious person to pursue what she believes to
be good. It is important to note that this is not a necessary
condition of vice. One can be vicious by knowingly pursuing the bad.
One can also be vicious while lacking any conception of the good or
bad. Roger Sterling, a character on the television series Mad Men,
never bothers to develop a conception of the good or bad. But, since
he is blameworthy for failing to do so, and since he consistently does
what a self-indulgent person would do, he is still vicious.
Aristotle's conditions on vice are sufficient. His analysis of vice,
[...] enables us to account for the vices of people who falsely and
negligently believe that they are doing good.»
-- Heather Battaly,
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9752.12024/full

Monday, November 25, 2013

nomadology of holes

«I know what I was doing, where and how I lived during those years,
but I know it almost abstractly, rather as if someone else were
relating memores that I believe in but don't really have... That's
what I find interesting in people's lives, the holes, the gaps,
sometimes dramatic, but sometimes not dramatic at all. There are
catalepsies, or a kind of sleepwalking through a number of years, in
most lives. Maybe it's in these holes that movement takes place.» -
Deleuze

Friday, November 15, 2013

in case you missed it the first time around

«According to Nietzsche, ressentiment is a „feeling of vengefulness
(Rachegefühl)‟. It occurs when, due to some impotence, a „reaction
ceases to be acted in order to become something felt (senti)‟ (Deleuze
2006, 111). As interiorized reaction, it is the local and
surreptitious illness that defines „those who came off badly‟ in any
healthy civilization, i.e. any culture based on a natural hierarchy
between masters and slaves. „While the noble man lives in trust and
openness with himself (...), the man of ressentiment is neither
upright nor naive nor honest and straightforward with himself. His
soul squints; his spirit loves hiding places, secret paths and back
doors, everything covert entices him as his world, his security, his
refreshment; he understands how to keep silent, how not to forget, how
to wait, how to be provisionally self-deprecating and humble. A race
of such men of ressentiment is bound to become eventually cleverer
than any noble race; it will also honor cleverness to a far greater
degree: namely, as a condition of existence of the first importance‟.»
-- from Sjoerd van Tuinen, "A Thymotic Left? Peter Sloterdijk and
the Psychopolitics of Ressentiment"
http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/23451/Thymotic%20Left.pdf

Deleuze 2006 is:
 
  G. Deleuze (2006) Nietzsche & Philosophy, transl.
  H. Tomlinson, NY: Columbia University Press.

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