Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:46:18 +0100
From: Rene de Bakker <rene.de.bakker-AT-uba.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: WtP and justice


At 10:07 26-2-03 -0800, John Foster wrote:

>We can start buying products made by Germans and the French
>instead of products made by US companies. For example, buy a
>BMW or Citroen instead of a Ford or GM. That should help.

I'll take a Batavus bike, thanks John.


>I am left wondering how a state can make an ultimatum
>regarding military aggression when in fact there is progress
>towards disarmament. Certainly there is no immanent threat
>from Iraq.

That was also the point of Finkielkraut c.s. yesterday on French TV.

>I like the quote. It suggest that humanity, our universal
>nature, is one of a 'rational animal', a positive
>evolutionary adaptation,  rather than a specifically
>irrational animal. Please do not confuse irrational with the
>non-rational.

You will get Cheney's job when Kenneth will be king.
John "Rain" Forrester, sounds nice.

Some more Nietzsche, quoted by Heidgger in "What calls for thinking"

Critique of modernity.— Our institutions are no good any more: on that
there is unanimous agreement. However, it is not their fault but OURS. Once
we have lost all the instincts out of which institutions grow, we lose
institutions altogether because WE are no longer good for them. Democracy
[better: democratism: the will to democr. - rdb] has ever been the form of
decline in organizing power: in "Human, All-Too-Human" (I, 472) I already
characterized modern democracy, together with its hybrids such as the
"German Reich," as the FORM OF DECLINE OF THE STATE. In order that there
may be institutions, there must be a kind of will, instinct, or imperative,
which is anti-liberal to the point of malice: the will to tradition, to
authority, to RESPONSIBILITY for centuries to come, to the solidarity of
chains of generations, forward and backward IN INFINITUM. When this will is
present, something like the Imperium Romanum is founded; or like Russia,
the ONLY power today which has endurance, which can wait, which can still
promise something—Russia, the counter-concept to the wretched European
nervousness and system of small states, which has entered a critical phase
with the founding of the German Reich ... The whole of the West no longer
possesses the instincts out of which institutions grow, out of which a
future grows: perhaps nothing antagonizes its "modern spirit" so much. One
lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly:
precisely this is called "freedom." That which MAKES an institution an
institution is despised, hated, repudiated: one anticipates [glaubt] the
danger of a new slavery the moment the word "authority" is even spoken out
loud. That is how far décadence has advanced in the value-instincts of our
politicians, our political parties: instinctively they prefer what
disintegrates, what hastens the end ... 

There's no end to Nietzsche: he has foreseen corporate fraud too.
And the consequences of the voting system...... Here we have the saying:
a good wine needs no bush. Beyond joking: an institution can but exist when
it is
believed in, when those who participate believe in it and in themselves.
This 'necessary belief' (Glaube) of Nietzsche is something else than faith
(Glaube as well)

Heidegger comments Nietzsche's outburst taking the animal rationale with
the horns

"According to the old doctrine of metaphysics man is the animal rationale,
the rational animal.
This already Roman interpretation does no longer correspond to the essence
[dem Wesen]
of that, which the Greeks thought under the name of 'zoion logon echon'.
According to that,
man is "that rising [: aufgehen, like the sun, physis] present [thing],
that can let appear present
[things]" To the later eveninglandic way of conceiving the human becomes a
peculiarly built
combination of animality and rationality." 

[this is not Nietzsche's fault, when he names man the un-determined animal,
das nicht-festgestellte
Tier. He rather takes responsibility, by determining, unifying his loose,
ambiguous essence sofar]

[...] The thinking-way [Denkweg] of Nietzsche would not will to overturn
anything, only make up for something.

Then: the going over of the supraman (here 'overman' looks better), Caesar
with the soul of Christ,
a word, says Heidegger, that should not be slid over too hasty ===>
Hoelderlin's Christ.) 

(We must, first, see, why Nietzsche is indispensable, also to Heidegger,
and only then, what 
makes a difference, what carries them apart. But that looks without an end)
  	


regards,

rene










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Afdeling Catalogisering 
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