[Mickey Brausch]

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I'm guessing there's a bunch of you who ... might be willing to explain some questions I may come across

[/ QUOTE ] FN was the first philosopher who not just declared Man's actual situation in the cosmos but also (unlike predecessors such as Kant) dismissed the safety net of religious ideology. He breaks with the Judaeo-Christian ethic in the most emphatic terms, and returns to the Greeks, for the notion of tragedy and Dionysus.

FN reserved his most acidic remarks for Christian religion. FN's prose seems to come from the fascination and the horror of a child who realizes he has always been an adopted orphan and who subsequently strives to remain sane. What FN submitted as Man's only possible, honest conduct in life (ie heroic acceptance and defiance) has not changed nor refuted, since his time. Only clarified and elaborated on.

Mickey Bunch