Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 20:14:23 -0600 (CST) From: CND7750-AT-UTARLG.UTA.EDU Subject: Re: Faith and the Death of God I should emphasize that it is precisely because the world is indeterminate and not determinate that free will is an illusion. We live in a world in which everything is thought to be determined. Every event is determined either by a human will or a natural law. According to Nietzsche, the eternal return 'overcomes' both of these concepts because it renders them both--mechanicism and humanistic idealism--as mere 'ideals'. Efficient cause is the only kind of cause that affirms chance, that is indeterminate. Nietzsche thought that the idea that the cosmos 'obeyed' natural laws was no less 'determined' by moralistic values than the idea of free will. In fact, they both go hand in hand, for most believe in both. Both beliefs imply the three kinds of cause other than efficient cause: materially external, formal, and final. I do not this is recus reductive. The only way to affirm fate, amor fati and the eternal return, is to deny the nihilistic values that rest upon formal, final, and exterior cause. Nothing is determined to happen as it does, there is no reason for it to happen. To believe that there is is to deny the eternal return and to be nihilistic. The section on the "Four Great Errors" in _Twilight of the Idols_ is rather clear on this. This is shy the eternal return is the hardest thought, and must be 'beared' by those who think that the loss of the old values implies nihilism. Once it is realized that the eternal return shows the other values to be nihilistic, the eternal return liberates, transforms. "The Hammer Speaks!" chris _ _ _ --- from list nietzsche-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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