Brian Leiter

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If we have free and fair midterm elections in the U.S., the malevolent buffoon/gangster is finished.

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What a shameless and corrupt huckster this man is

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I find most contemporary normative moral and political philosophy pretty dreary I confess

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the prize was created by the Bank of Sweden to enhance the status of neoliberal economic theory with an eye ultimately to changing social democratic policies in Sweden.

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One can hope that these sentiments register with other members of the ruling class, including those in the Republican Party who might play a larger role in stopping Trump. In a plutocracy, that is our best hope for a peaceful outcome.

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But only if the Democrats actually advocate for a social democratic revolution in this benighted country is there any chance of preventing the descent into barbarism.

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This question has an easy answer: one month is reasonable, two weeks is absurdly unreasonable, and anything less than a month should be justified by some pressing consideration

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I think the one to go for would be the Clark – Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy.

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The primary texts are certainly more fun and if you were to start with one of them, then Beyond Good and Evil would be a great choice, because it covers all the distinctive and important Nietzschean themes and as it’s broken into bite-size pieces you don’t get overwhelmed.

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I range fairly widely over Nietzsche’s mature works, but besides the two crucial books recommended in the earlier interview—Beyond Good and Evil and On the Genealogy of Morality—I think two other works are quite important for understanding his moral psychology: Daybreak, his first mature work of 1881, and Twilight of the Idols, one of his last works in 1888.