Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Walt Zingmatilder on July 07, 2022, 05:38:34 PM
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Johnson has stated that the process which produces Tory leaders is Darwinian.
What did he mean by it?
Source: Any news organ.
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Johnson has stated that the process which produces Tory leaders is Darwinian.
What did he mean by it?
Source: Any news organ.
Coupled with his reference to "the herd", it sounds like a vague nod to Nietzsche. Maybe he thinks the Tory selection process is a good means of producing the Übermensch.
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Coupled with his reference to "the herd", it sounds like a vague nod to Nietzsche. Maybe he thinks the Tory selection process is a good means of producing the Übermensch.
I'm sure your'e right. Is Nietschze Darwinian do you think?
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Johnson has stated that the process which produces Tory leaders is Darwinian.
What did he mean by it?
Source: Any news organ.
He's clearly wrong. The Tory leader selection process has got nothing to do with descent with modification. If it did, the candidates would have to be BJ's children.
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I'm sure your'e right. Is Nietschze Darwinian do you think?
Not really. N invoked Darwin as an important element in his philosophy, though maybe this was filtered through Spencer's interpretation (instruct me here).
N's philosophy seems rather contradictory, with the Übermensch set in opposition to the Eternal Recurrence.
Boris returning for evermore! Kill me now...
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He's clearly wrong. The Tory leader selection process has got nothing to do with descent with modification. If it did, the candidates would have to be BJ's children.
Yup.
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Does this make Dorries the missing link?
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He's clearly wrong. The Tory leader selection process has got nothing to do with descent with modification. If it did, the candidates would have to be BJ's children.
Lots of Conservatives probably are.
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I'm sure your'e right. Is Nietschze Darwinian do you think?
No. Darwinism is science; Nietzchianism is bollocks.
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No. Darwinism is science; Nietzchianism is bollocks.
Not sure what 'Nietzchianism' is. There is certainly a lot of bollocks in Nietzsche, but there are many facets to his thought, and he deserves to be read. The connection with the Nazis was not inevitable, though it's perhaps not surprising that certain hysterical outbursts of his appealed to Hitler.
Adolf would not have liked what N said about anti-semites at all.
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Nietxche not only inspired the Nazis, he also inspired a notorious murder in the 20s by two students who thought that, being brainy, they were above ordinary morality. His defenders say that the Nazis and the stuudents misinterpreted him, perhaps wilfully, but it's significant how easy it is to misinterpret him in that way. You don't hear of Kierkegaard or Wittgenstein being used to defend murder. Of course, the Nazis misinterpreted Darwin to their ends as well, but Darwin (who was liberal in his views for his time) was a scientist, whose work has been backed up by masses of later discoveries, whereas Nietzche was not.
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Lots of Conservatives probably are.
What makes you think that BJ's children will share his political views?
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Of course, the Nazis misinterpreted Darwin to their ends as well, but Darwin (who was liberal in his views for his time) was a scientist, whose work has been backed up by masses of later discoveries, whereas Nietzche was not.
Hitler once explicitly repudiated Darwinian evolution. In Mein Kampf he literally used the "rabbits only give birth to rabbits" trope.
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Johnson has stated that the process which produces Tory leaders is Darwinian.
What did he mean by it?
He was talking about getting another incompetent lieing drunk idiot, or maybe another hard-working sober competent person.
And 'working' to try and get a compromise in his position.
To me, it sounds like he believes in Marxism...
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Hitler once explicitly repudiated Darwinian evolution. In Mein Kampf he literally used the "rabbits only give birth to rabbits" trope.
I'm very pleased to hear it.