If you had perfect foreknowledge of the blessings and tragedies that will come in your life, would you make the same choices anyway?
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Non-Western thought is vast and ancient, so why don’t some consider it philosophy?
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Can we affirm everything in life, the beauty and the suffering? Nietzsche says yes.
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Think walking is void of philosophy? Nietzsche and Gros are here to say you’re wrong.
Nietzsche had some harsh things to say about the worldview of the masses, but what did he really think?
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Friedrich Nietzsche is an influential thinker, but he is not without critics. One of the best of them is British philosopher Bertrand Russell.
Nietzsche has had a large influence on political history, but what did he really think of all the ideologies he examined?
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