+Jennifer Armstrong "Just world hypothesis"? Me thinks Voltaire had a clearer perspective of the truth. We must tend to our gardens. Co-dependency is inevitable in some fashion to some degree. Would you equate vanity with narcissism? There are some useful and interesting post-Nietzsche philosophers, to be sure - Heidegger, perhaps, being the most valuable in my opinion. But Schopenhauer is someone whose thought I rank along side Friedrich's (a very small list, to be sure), and, the way I see it, the latter owed as much to the former as he improved and refined the former.
+Mark David O'Connor No, no, vanity and narcissism are not the same. Nietzsche explicitly critized Shopenhauer as hostile to reality in many of its forms. I'm not sure how you can make a comparison with S and his other-wordliness and Nietzsche. The most extreme Nietzsche was in these terms was to insist on Idealism rather than materialism. Yet, by incorporating a philosophy of evil, he came very close to materialism, or as close as can be to grappling with physical reality.
Heidegger, too, is other-worldly, and Bataille attempted to rise up against him since he did not embrace enough risk or realism for Bataille's taste.
Psychology of 'co-dependency' & the 'just world hypothesis'
