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Taming the Beast: The Inner Battle for Control

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  1. modern_prometheus
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    Nice. In case someone finds this text interesting I'd like to recommend some further reading material: Master-slave dialectic The Self as multiplicity and pluralism as virtue Thus Spake...

    Nice.

    In case someone finds this text interesting I'd like to recommend some further reading material:

    Nietzsche insists that we should “give the finishing stroke” to what he calls “the soul atomism”, which he goes on to explain as

    the belief which regards the soul as something indestructible, eternal, indivisible, as a monad, as an atomon:… Between ourselves, it is not at all necessary to get rid of “the soul” at the same time, and thus to renounce one of the most ancient and venerable hypotheses—as happens frequently to clumsy naturalists who can hardly touch on “the soul” without immediately losing it. But the way is now open for new versions and refinements of the soul hypothesis, [including] “mortal soul”, “soul as subjective multiplicity”, and “soul as social structure of the drives and affects”… (BGE 12)

    Hell, I'll even throw in some McLuhan for you —if you tie it all together it's easy to see why the Internet so greatly excites the "badself":

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