Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:43:17 +0200
Subject: Re: Nietzsche / Heidegger (2)


end of (1):
Heidegger: Still in the same month of August, Nietzsche draws several
scheme's, in order to collect the consequences of the thought.
And H. pays special attention to the incommensurability of what Nietzsche
in fact publicized and what he held back and was later edited in the
Grossoktavausgabe. (now most of it in "Der Wille zur Macht", which
is according to one of the many scheme's, Nietzsche left). And even
in "Also sprach Zarathustra", the exposition of the ER is procrastinated 
(hinausgezoegert).  

One of these notes from August contains the sequence:

Die Einverleibung der Irrtuemer   -   The incorporation of the errors
                                                (that is: metaphysical errors)

(2):
Where is the erroneous metaphysics, Nietzsche is turning against?
Einverleibt in the Leib/body, incorporated in the corpus. That's why he can
say: I am Plato. One doesn't need to read Plato, he is already in the
body, that sees the idea, that 'believes' in the idea as the true reality.
And indeed: how can I, reading the word 'potatoe', or looking at the
"Potato-eaters', or seeing a potatoe on my plate, rely on the sameness
of 'potatoe', irrespective of whether I posit the supernatural existence of
the idea 'potatoe', or believe it is a mere thought or word?

How can this seeing of essences ever be refuted? By incorporating
the ER, biting off the head of the snake and so BECOME, what is: the ER, 
thinking the thought of the ER oneself. The biting happens in a (decisive)
moment.
It's the momentary character of the ER, which makes it ER: the eternity
is momentary. The dwarf evades the interiorization of the thought, 
and his eternity is again an idea, an illusion.

What is it, that makes Zarathustra shudder, hearing his animals say,
what he is? The eternal return of the little man, of all that illusionary,
that doesn't know the 'truth' about itself, but which has to be affirmed
with a contempt out of love. Everyone rather wants to be the hammer than 
the nail, but here you have to be both. Truth itself is a kind of error,
needed
by a specific form of life.  (what about the truth/falsity of WtP and ER
themselves? - later)

In the moment of eternity, everything is the same. 
And there is no escaping this utmost indifference.
Would there be a goal, it would already have been attained. (Wille zur
Macht, no. ?)

Nietzsche:
"Everything has come back: the Sirius and the spider and your thoughts
in this hour and this thought of yours, that everything returns" 

Thus the thought itself becomes the hammer in the hand of the most
powerful man.
"Recapitulation:
"To impress the character of Being on Becoming: the highest will to power.
- Summit
of meditation." This is clearly the ER.


"We" said before: What is WtP, livng, becoming, as such?
Answer: Eternal return.
Now, what is the ER? Answer: the highest WtP. 

Question: what is this circle?

Rene
 

(3) Moment - time - "high mid-day" - "the history of an error"
     "Who is Nietzsche's Zarathustra?" - "revenge against time and its 'it
was'"
     German p. 113/4. "One who suffered heavily"

    (I thought this was in "What is called/calls for thinking":
incorporated error)

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drs. René de Bakker
Universiteitsbibliotheek Amsterdam
Afdeling Catalogisering 
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