I haven’t been posting lately, since I’ve been working on a couple of Nz papers, with quickly-approaching deadlines. Here is a link to one of them through SSRN: Nietzsche and the perspective of life It’s a much-revised version of the “Valuing from life’s perspective” paper. In it I try to explain what “Life’s perspective” is,… Continue reading

Darn it! Where is that blasted passage where Nietzsche wishes upon his friends every hardship, misfortune, illness, etc.? Continue reading

.. are worth recording. I get up, drink my coffee, walk my path to campus, drag a deer carcass to the side, play online chess with a friend in Budapest, and make a decent stab at understanding the nature of Nietzsche’s revaluation of values. Hell, it’s not even noon. Continue reading

HEY! 18,000 hits! Whodathunkit. I think I’ll go have a scotch. Continue reading

Back when we bought the Columbia Grafonola, we also bought an old surveyor’s tripod. A trip to the home supply store, a bit of retro-fitting, and — voila! A lamp. Somehow, it doesn’t sound as exciting as it feels. Continue reading

Living in Utah can be both weird and thrilling. Last night we experienced a bit of both by attending a performance by our local American Festival Chorus, under the baton of Craig Jessop, who used to conduct the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and now heads our Department of Music. The evening was to commemorate the bicentennial… Continue reading