From: clinton <clinton@unknownlamer.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 04:45:50 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add some Nietzsche to book list
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Add some Nietzsche to book list
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 and gradually work toward a generic and well designed MOP for
 CLOS. Through that process one is made more aware of a few general
 object protocol design skills, and gains insight into how to cleanly
-make mapping decisions customizable.")))
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+make mapping decisions customizable."))
+ ((|Friedrich| |Nietzsche|)
+  "A bit acerbic and esoteric, Nietzsche is for me a good *secular*
+counterpart to Kierkegaard's theistic philosophy. Nietzsche's
+polemical works raise important questions for anyone who reads works
+on ethics. As such it is a shame that he has gotten a bad reputation
+by being read by far too many angsty teenagers who see (and relay)
+only Nietzsche the asshole rather than Nietzsche the master of the
+polemic."
+  ("Beyond Good and Evil"
+   :nonfiction 8
+   "A somewhat more comprehensible, if a bit less aesthetically
+pleasing, presentation of much of the philosophy found in *Thus Spoke
+Zarathustra*. The final chapters are very important (not to detract
+from the value of the rest of the work) if one wishes to understand
+*On the Genealogy of Morals*.")
+  ("On the Geneaology of Morals"
+   :nonfiction 9
+   "*On the Geneaology of Morals* is a wonderful book of three
+polemical essays on the origin of moral/ethic valuations, and the
+blindness of modern philosphers whose very thinking is tainted by
+these valuations unknowingly.")))
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