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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 13:41:14 -0700 (MST)
From: LEO MEEKS <lmeeks-AT-du.edu>
Subject: Re: Goetterdammerung


Chris,
i think your post articulates the the basic tenets of an either/or thinking.
it seems as if neitzsche must be either a logical, rational writer in 
order to be a philosopher or he is a non-logical aphorist, a pagan, and 
so forth. What nietzsche criticised is the reduction of thought to the 
either/or position: fro nietzsche things seem to be much more complex and 
multiple than your discourse allows.

-leo

On Thu, 9 Feb 1995 CND7750-AT-utarlg.uta.edu wrote:

> I agree almost totally. Nietzshce's atheism strikes me as being a kind
> of belief. This kind of belief is at odds with christianity, and all
> other forms of theism that i am aware of. I think we often attempt
> to make Nietzsche more kind hearted than he was. The man obviously
> despised not only the Christian faith but Christian vicivilization
> as well, and was not averse to simply stating that he found the the
> whole thing to be stupid. Of course he develops many more arguments,
> but that is one of them. 
> 
> I would like to elaborate on making Nietzsche more presentable
> to academic discourse, but have little tiem so will make just
> a few comments and wait for them to be chewed up. Nietzsche is
> a violent thinker. He is a pagan. I am not denying that he had
> something of a scholar personality, but it seems to me that he
> would have preferred not to. His argument appeal to base
> emotions not logic, though, again, he is not averse to degradating
> what he thinks is stupid. So what do we do? We tell Christians that
> he was really not violent and not against everythign they believein
> because we're afraid they might uturn on us or simply attempt to
> band Nietzsche. Just because Nietzsche was violent does not mean
> he was a Nazi. I don't think i need to explain this in great detail.
> However, he was an antichrist and an antihumanist.
> have at it.
> 
> chris
> 

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