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Originally Posted by Plain Old Jane
yea... I was less then awake when I wrote... ALL that....
whatever, neitzches book... not as exciting as I thought... but on aristotles benefit, I enjoyed his "Nicomachean Ethics"... although it was a littl longwinded.
btw, did anyone notice I said that stormy heralded the end of the world?
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Yeah, I never cared for Aristotle's Ethics, but the Metaphysics is great... I'd suggest picking up Jonathan Lear's "Aristotle: THe Desire to Understand", it's a companion to the Metaphysics that is written so that it isn't necessary to have the books and it explains everything very well.
Neitzche has written a lot of books ... the most famous being the Parable of the Madman/Gay Science (the God is Dead stuff)... I'm reading the Birth and Tragedy now, and while it's kind of boring at times (talks a lot about ... art), the central message is good. I think people go into reading Nietzche expecting this guy who's going to rip apart people who believe in God and bolster Atheism--because that's how people always seem to refer to him as--and then the modern Atheists/Secularists and neo-paganist/cult types are the ones who get the most brutal assault. Yay!