From: "nik" <gack-AT-acay.com.au>
Subject: Re: Fw: the perfect person
Date: Mon, 25 May 98 12:15:46 PDT


> As for the "superhuman"
> stuff, I thought that was no longer considered a very interesting part of
> Nietzsche's work.
>
> Linda
>
i always thought the superhuman (or transhuman as a lot of people seem to be recently calling it) stuff was some of his most interesting work. all the interesting political modern thought seems to be grounded in the theory of the superhuman. in the theory that political change must be personal change, and that personal change involves altering the way you "see" the world; ie, involves "overcomming" the limits (boundaries) of your world view. i think of the best (?) of feminist thought in this way -  the biggest challenge is not legal and economic "equality" (an event that always occurs on a masculine playing field), but to change the way people see each other, the way they relate to each other. the challenge is to remove the inequity at the personal level, at the level that it is made and encoded.
nik