Colin McGinn has joined Philospot and the archive from his former site, colinmcginnblog.com, can be found here. We look forward to Colin's first post and some lively debate, which is sure to follow!

Welcome Mark to Philospot. Mark's first entry is Nietzsche and Dog Training:

In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche wrote: 'A table of values hangs over every nation. It is the table of their overcomings. It is the voice of their will to power.' At least, I'm pretty sure he wrote something like that. I can't find my copy of Thus Spoke Zarathustra to check. Here we find the assertion of a connection between value and overcoming. Overcoming is the ability to resist impulses. The value of a thing is a function of the quantity and intensity of impulses one would be willing to resist in order to possess that thing. And that, in a nutshell, is the rationale for dog training.

You can read more on Mark's blog.

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