Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Nietzsche and Mohammed
When Nietzsche started hearing voices, his career as philosopher ended. When Mohammed started hearing voices, his career as prophet began.
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- Koenraad Elst
- Koenraad Elst (°Leuven 1959) distinguished himself early on as eager to learn and to dissent. After a few hippie years he studied at the KU Leuven, obtaining MA degrees in Sinology, Indology and Philosophy. After a research stay at Benares Hindu University he did original fieldwork for a doctorate on Hindu nationalism, which he obtained magna cum laude in 1998. As an independent researcher he earned laurels and ostracism with his findings on hot items like Islam, multiculturalism and the secular state, the roots of Indo-European, the Ayodhya temple/mosque dispute and Mahatma Gandhi's legacy. He also published on the interface of religion and politics, correlative cosmologies, the dark side of Buddhism, the reinvention of Hinduism, technical points of Indian and Chinese philosophies, various language policy issues, Maoism, the renewed relevance of Confucius in conservatism, the increasing Asian stamp on integrating world civilization, direct democracy, the defence of threatened freedoms, and the Belgian question. Regarding religion, he combines human sympathy with substantive skepticism.
5 comments:
A real aphorism! I didn't know that Nietsche in his madness heard voices, anyway it's an interesting comparison. The 'voices' and visions in prophecy are accepted as revelations from God or gods, then as Truth, in philosophy not, because reason is the guide (with some concession to intuition). But we cannot say that a prophet is a madman. It is reported that Muhammad at the beginning feared to have gone crazy, but gradually he could manage his prophetic experiences, and he was an able politician. Similarly, shamans at the first 'call' become like madmen, but they learn how to manage the 'spirits'. Also Rishis heard divine voices or received the divine word, according to Rigvedic hymns and Brhaddevata, even if the 'vision' is surely more important than 'hearing' in Vedic culture.
Radha Rajan's "Eclipse of the Hindu Nation; Gandhi and his Freedom Struggle".
Interesting
Well usually when you start to hear voices everything it's done for you haha poor guy seriously.
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There is a video where a muslim scholar is stating that he 100% agree that prophet's name is mentioned in Bhavishya Purana. Ironically, that sound alike name is associated with an avatar of Tarakasura and he was given the order by Lord Bali, king of underworld ha ha. Bali is a great personality though and the original owner of flying horse Uchchaisharavas.
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