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Nietzsche’s Ears
Friedrich Nietzsche had some interesting ideas about The Origin of the Ears:
Night and music. - The ear, the organ of fear, could have evolved as greatly as it has only in the night and twilight of obscure caves and woods, in accordance with the mode of life of the age of timidity, that is to say the longest human age there has ever been; in bright daylight the ear is less necessary. That is how music acquired the character of an art of night and twilight …
Nietzsche’s Ears
Friedrich Nietzsche had some interesting ideas about The Origin of the Ears:
Night and music. - The ear, the organ of fear, could have evolved as greatly as it has only in the night and twilight of obscure caves and woods, in accordance with the mode of life of the age of timidity, that is to say the longest human age there has ever been; in bright daylight the ear is less necessary. That is how music acquired the character of an art of night and twilight …
posted by -(x)(Fx-->Gx) at 5:54 AM
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Check this out for philosphers finally finding a use for themselves. Commentary is spot on, too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur5fGSBsfq8
Thanks for a good word!
P.S. About your username...:)
I couldn't get a clue, how every x that is F is also G implying, that it is false, that there is an x, such that it is false, that if that x is an F, then it’s a G and vice versa.
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