Getting rid of Plato (to think like Zarathushtra) Part 2

I would recommend Gilles Deleuze´s formidable little book "Nitezsche And Philosophy" which you can find at Amazon. Deleuze was the 20th century philosopher who combined Spinoza and Nietzsche and constructed an excellent massive argument against the whole Platonist worldview. If only Deleuze had read Zarathushtra, what a formidable book he would have written...
Ushta
Alexander

2009/8/17 roryyoung15



Ok, Spinoza and Nietsche to the top of the reading list!

Ushta,
Rory


--- In Ushta@yahoogroups.com, Alexander Bard wrote:
>
> Exactly!!!!
> Please note how profound Zarathushtra's chain of causes and effects is:
> You talk like you think, you act like you talk, you therefore are what you
> think in the sense of this being the starting point of a creative process
> than becomes its own feedback loop.
> Therefore, we are MAZDAYASNI, we identify with this process, it is a
> constant process (non-linear too) of PRODUCING And in this sense CREATING a
> self, which is never there beforehand to be actualized.
> Getting rid of Plato is hard but this is what we must do to get at
> Zarathushtra's thinking. Which is why so many of us here stress that for
> westerners to understand this process it often helps to have studied the
> classic western anti-Platonists first: Spinoza and Nietzsche most of all.
> They are Zarathushtra's philosophical brethren.
> Ushta
> Alexander