Re:Rethinking Fear
by Barrin92 on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @03:29AM
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The criticism is very much addressing ideas. Nietzsche's criticism of stoicism as a life-denying philosophy is also a criticism of what he perceived to be a particular leadership culture in a, in his perspective, declining Europe.
Passiveness, denying emotions and lived experience and with that also beauty and heroism and embracing risk and instead opting for rationalizing and theorizing and detachment is, he argues, bad not just for ordinary people but for the entire culture.
And I think that's very relevant today when it comes to leaders. We don't really have leaders as such but rather science, public intellectuals, bureaucrats, processes and so forth. When was the last time there was a modern leadership that had a sense for beauty or aesthetics?
Re:Rethinking Fear
by trabant00 on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @04:52AM
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That was a little bait and switch (antiquity vs late modern periods) as again, I think any model of thought is to be taken in context. But I understand what you are saying and personally I also think we have fallen victim to extreme rationalism.
Passiveness, denying emotions and lived experience and with that also beauty and heroism and embracing risk and instead opting for rationalizing and theorizing and detachment is, he argues, bad not just for ordinary people but for the entire culture.
And I think that's very relevant today when it comes to leaders. We don't really have leaders as such but rather science, public intellectuals, bureaucrats, processes and so forth. When was the last time there was a modern leadership that had a sense for beauty or aesthetics?