[MD] kill all intellectual patterns

[Michael R. Brown]

And Nietzsche is pale compared to Max Stirner (who influenced 
Nietzsche). A generation before N., S. had launched an attack on 
anything SQ in morals, and possibly in epistemology too.

The work states the individual is dominated by illusory concepts ('fixed 
ideas' or 'spooks'), which can be shaken and undermined by each 
individual in order for that person to act fully. These concepts include 
primarilyreligion <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion>andideology 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology>, and the institutions claiming 
authority over the individual. According to him, not only isGod 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God>analienating 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation>ideal, 
asFeuerbach <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Feuerbach>had argued 
in/The Essence of Christianity 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Essence_of_Christianity>/(1841), but 
so too are humanity itself,nationalism 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism>and allideologies 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology>. According to Stirner, 
individuals should only entertain temporary associations between 
themselves, agreeing in mutual aid and cooperation for a period of time, 
but only when in each individual's interest (perhaps 
anticipatingcooperative games 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_games>) - 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ego_and_Its_Own


MRB

On 11/25/2012 11:11 AM, david buchanan wrote:
> Pirsig isn't the only one who opposes the belief in a fixed and eternal Truth....
>
> ‎"You want to know what the philosophers' idiosyncrasies are? Their lack of historical sense for one thing, their hatred of the very idea of becoming, their Egypticity. They think that they are showing respect for something when they dehistoricize it, sub specie aeterni,―when they turn it into a mummy. For thousands of years, philosophers have been using only mummified concepts: nothing real makes it through their hands alive. They kill and stuff things they worship, these lords of concept idolatry―they become mortal dangers to everything they worship. They see death, change, and age, as well as procreation and growth, as objections,―refutations even. What is, does not become; what becomes, is not...So they all believe, desperately even, in being. But since they cannot get hold of it, they look for reasons why it is kept from them. 'There must be some deception here, some illusory level of appearances preventing us from perceiving things that have being: where is the deceiver?'―'We've got it!' they shout in ecstasy, 'it is in sensibility! These senses that are so immoral anyway, now they are deceiving us about the true world. Moral: get rid of sense-deception, becoming, history, lies,―history is nothing but a belief in the senses, a belief in lies. Moral: say no to everyone who believes in the senses, to all the rest of humanity: they are all "rabble". Be a philosopher, be a mummy, put on your gravedigger's face and show the world what monotono-theism is all about!―And above all, get rid of the body, this miserable idée fixe of the senses! full of all the errors of logic, refuted, impossible even, although it is impudent enough to act as if it were real!...'" - Friedrich Nietzsche