Date: Sun, 06 Apr 1997 14:02:11 +0000
From: John Evans Treat <treatje-AT-ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu>
Subject: Re: Subjectivization


***Warning: Newbie Post***

On  6 Apr 97, Doug Henwood wrote:

> If
> morality shouldn't be communal, then why wouldn't it be moral for me
> to kill you? Or gouge out the eye of a passerby? Not in the legal
> sense, since obviously both would be felonies, but in the
> moral/ethical sense. Nietzsche might not have a problem with
> answering this, since there's one morality for slaves and another
> for masters. Presumably most of us don't accept that.

I wonder whether Nietzsche could ask, Why would one *want* to do 
this -- especially given that by doing so one would weaken oneself, 
since one would then be forever vulnerable to revenge, punishment? 
Hardly a position of power. Doesn't real mastery also involve 
self-possession and restraint? If you and I feel aggression toward 
one another, can't we joyously affirm it and agree to transcend that, 
and thus both become more powerful? I'm reminded of Gilgamesh and 
Enkidu -- now *there* was a friendship. Does N. anywhere refer to 
that epic? I can't recall.

Best regards,
John