Talk:Beyond Freedom and Dignity/Archive 1

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Whatever value the criticism laid upon this book is worth, these two lists of "Worst Books Ever" do not seems very insightful or legitimate, deeming Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil", a work respected by all modern philosophers, as a Nazi book, commiting possibly the weakest form of logical fallacy i.e. argumentum ad hitlerum, not to mention it being oblivious to all the literature proving there is nothing nazi in Nietzsche. I suggest those get removed and some research is performed to find links to Chomsky's criticism for example.

The comparison is not apt because Nietszche (whom I value but with a mature perspective) is an actual advocate of irrationality while the diameterically opposite complaint would be made of Skinner, i.e. that he has gone overboard in reductionism. I am working on adding a section with a paraphrastic summary of each chapter. Lycurgus 23:03, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

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Added sectioning to this page. No problem with User:WikiPedants edit. Have a chapter by chapter synopsis in prep. I do have very strong opinions about this material but will confine them to my user space or own web. Lycurgus 06:23, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Hello Lycurgus -- I have strong opinions about him too, but prefer to let his words speak for him. I'm wary of detailed chapter-by-chapter summaries and think there's too much of this popping up in Wikipedia. Why not just give people a handle on a book and let them read it for themselves? After all, an encyclopedia is not supposed to be CliffsNotes. Respectfully -- WikiPedant 13:30, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi WikiPedant.-- I disagree, I think an encyclopædia is like Cliff and/or Crib Notes, at least that's the thrust of it taken as a noun literally. In any case if I find the work is available on-line (very unlikely) or an existing precis (encyclopædic or otherwise) will link it as you say. There's some semantic dissonance here because on the one hand encyclopediæ have been used since the 18th Century to advance certain world views and on the other they are not supposed to be a place where original contributions occur. Lycurgus 20:54, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Gave up on doing anything with this outside of my owned space, q.v. Lycurgus 13:53, 19 September 2007 (UTC)