Subject: Nietzsche:interpretation and economic abreviation
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 12:25:41 -0400 (EDT)


> 
> "Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we 
> cannot escape." (The Will to Power, 522). Never has it enslaved what/who 
> has not given in to a plan to escape. Then again, it is but "a" scheme, 
> and "we" are trapped, not "I". Thus the interpretation may be permitted 
> to re-main.
> 
> How-ever, once being called rational, a first gauntlet is thrown before 
> the rule. The tried Truths (verb) in practice and one's words reforms 
> a-round, a fugue of many voices flee back in the vicious circle, or is 
> it virtuous. Does it matter which? Unsure? Then join the few Others in 
> this orbit at the ends of Dante's Hell(O) where the uncommitted shall 
> go. Aren't we they yet?
> 
It is true that a scheme is what makes up a "we" and not an "I". It is
related to what he calls in 521, a "compulsion to construct concepts,
species, forms, purposes, laws... [and] this same compulsion exists in
the sense activities that support reason -- by simplification,
coarsening, emphasizing, and elaborating, upon which all "recognition,"
all ability to make oneself intelligible rests." Enough has been said
on the value that Nietzsche places on making oneself hard to understand
and interpret to give 'us' a sense of the critical slant in his
discussion of the will to power as knowledge. Interpretation as the
preservation of the species is a long process of making equal, simple,
and coarse. Equalization, in this perspective, is very different from
that brought up on the question of "what is noble?". To be able to use
a word like "species" become concept long after it has left an impression
only shows that the tempo of change and growth has slowed
down, allowing for the endurance of forms and the quick intelligibility
of communication "for us" (see 521). Our natural tendency is to fix
becoming... which is strictly speaking impossible to comprehend and
know (see 520). He writes in 517, that "knowledge and becoming exclude
one another," yet knowledge is a kind of becoming. Knowing is
interpretation where through schematization regularity and form has
been imposed upon the chaosmos according to our practical needs which
again depend on our ability to be communicable as quickly and
efficiently as possible. Lucio, see how I try hard to make myself clear
and easy to understand?




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