From a8701f2f099715e90abbe4665259b299074a7633 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: clinton Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 04:45:50 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Add some Nietzsche to book list --- book-list.lisp | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/book-list.lisp b/book-list.lisp index 3848bb1..3d7fa78 100644 --- a/book-list.lisp +++ b/book-list.lisp @@ -141,4 +141,25 @@ series of revisions that fix limitations of earlier implementations 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."))) \ No newline at end of file +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."))) \ No newline at end of file -- 2.20.1