From: echampion-AT-unitec.ac.nz
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 09:01:59 +1200
Subject:       Re: A Question for Iain about Meaning.



>
> Yes and no. Nietzsche is often read as being a subjectivist. But, subjectivity, it seems to me, is also subordinated in Nietzsche--to 
>Will to Power. His is not a mere relativism, in other words, which subordinating all meaning (or value) to the self-positing of 
>the human subject would be. For him, all "subjects" are not the same, but can be differentiated as "types" according to the 
>character or state of their wills to power, which he variously characterizes in terms of strong/weak, healthy/sick, whole/partial, 
>active/reactive, etc. Will to Power, however, although conceivably that which values (life), is not itself a standard of value. 
>Nietzsche's standard of value, which I see as being an "open standard," is the enhancement of the human type, as opposed to its 
>diminution. 
>
> Steve Callihan 

I do not quite follow your reading: are you saying that we can never escape our type, only improve it-is there no crossover?



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