From: penguin-AT-common.se (Anders Ohlsson)
Subject: Re: Doer and the deed; formerly: Re: superWOman was here
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 00:20:33 



Erik,

>> Taken literally, "you are what you do" by definition, but it's easy to
>> interpret it as a statement of causality, as in "you are what you eat".
>
>I'm not sure I agree.

No, I meant it's easy for Chris to interpret Babette's phrasing that way.

>I would argue, in fact, that the doer-deed statement of Nietzsche is
>decidedly working against causal explanations (see GM I,13).

Here I'd like to insert a hypertext link to quantum physics (another case
of "strong sense of affinity"), in which the singularly interesting thing
happens (er, event takes place) that previously quite stable "things" have
to be reinterpreted as _events_, undermining the conceptual basis for the
separation of cause and effect, the doer-particle. Too late for old N to
gloat over, alas.

/A




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