Fire Philosophy: Nietzsche, Zen, and How to Live

Fire Philosophy: Nietzsche, Zen, and How to Live

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Dale Wright
May 07, 2025
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Many religious traditions imagine hell as a blazing inferno and moral condemnation as being cast down into this torturous fire. Fire conjures up mental images of suffering in excruciating pain, death by overexposure to intense heat and flame. But we also suffer and die by exposure to fire’s opposite, extreme cold. Hell could have been imagined as a froz…

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