Saturday, January 16, 2021

The Anti-PC Professor

By "W"
Sat, Jan 16, 2021 1:43 a.m.

The Anti-PC Professor

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/512667-us-democrats-republicans-trump/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Email

"W": He sued New York University and rec'd a settlement from them. I read two of his books this past year:

Springtime for Snowflakes: Social Justice and Its Postmodern Parentage (2018), and Beyond Woke (2020).

He cites Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, for his refutation of egalitarianism.

Rectenwald had a novel published the end of 2020, Thought Criminal. I haven't read it yet. Here is a description:

https://www.michaelrectenwald.com/apogee-bookstore

https://www.amazon.com/Thought-Criminal-Michael-Rectenwald/dp/194

N.S.: The problerms with Nietzsche are at least two-fold: 1. He was a value (and, I believe, epistemological) relativist. A relativist can't give you a good reason for supporting any given principle, virtue, or value; of related significance: 2. Nietzsche wasn't a philosopher. Philosophers trade in arguments. Nietzsche, instead, traded in mockery and ridicule of positions with which he disagreed.

 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

To be totally cynical about the subject,when you have elitists pushing egalitarianism,you have to take their sincerity with a grain of salt.

THEIR goal of equality excludes themselves--and only includes their lessers--US--the ones who don't live in gated communities(lol).

True egalitarianism can only be a government led communist state--which kills the spirit of humans to attempt to improve their lives.But even in that situation,there are elitists running the show--and benefitting--someone has to be the leader,no matter which philosophy is chosen to keep the masses in check.

That will never change--the methods do on occasion,depending on the gullibility of the people.

The Anti-PC professor is an elitist,at least he's attempting to be by writing books and changing minds,something "regular" people do not do publicly.
--GRA

Anonymous said...

I think Nietzche too was admired by the Nazi? Philosophy is hard too. You need to first study philosophy to be able to understand how to study philosophy?