File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1995/nietzsche_Aug.95, message 113


Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 16:14:11 -0700
From: Johnson Watts <wattsjn-AT-rsn.nv.doe.gov>
Subject:  Re: eliminating recuperation: ethical stoicism -Reply


Consulting _Webster's 3rd New Int. Dict_, I find that the verb "exploit"
has drifted considerably from its older meanings, which were not
negative in the least.

1 (obs):  ACHIEVE, PERFORM

2 a:  WORK, CULTIVATE, UTILIZE
    b:  to make use of meanly..to take undue advantage

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The difficulty here I think is in assuming that one _already_ knows what
"exploitation" may mean before one has even thought about the
statement, or assuming that it only has _one_ meaning (i.e., the meaning
one already assumes, without thinking, it has), quite apart from any
value it may be said to represent (good, bad, or indifferent).  It seems to
me that the word has _many_ levels, is
"deep" in other words, has many possible meanings and associations
attached to it (is not, in other words, in the slightest, monochromatic). 
To simply make a single-minded reading here, as is almost always the
case with Nietzsche, is pure folly.  It is exactly
Nietzsche's strategy to use just such words, frequently and often, as
snares for the unwary.  (Take the bait if you wish, but don't be
surprised that you have trouble getting off the hook.)




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