From: jyacc!sparks!hleung-AT-uunet.uu.net (H. Curtiss Leung) Subject: Re: Interpretation vs. Life Date: Sun, 1 Oct 95 17:25:50 EDT Steven wrote: > > If you want absolute certitude, there is none, except within > absolutely closed systems (but that seems to be what you are > "lamenting," so to speak). > > A "ranking" is simply the assigning of a value. > > ....stuff deleted.... > > (Actually, I wrote another very involved post about the distinction > between truth and value, value standards, the Will to Power, > Heideggerian labyrinths, and why a ripe grape wants to fall, but on > second thought felt the above was more apt, and less likely to bore, > to tears.) Please, post it! What bothers me in Nietzsche is that will to power and eternal recurrence seem to close his thought and provide absolute truth when he's otherwise demonstrated there's no such thing. If this a reading that doesn't just consign these doctrines to the all too human, I'd like to see it. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Curtiss Leung Voice: (212)267-7722 x3127 hleung-AT-jyacc.com Facsimile: (212)608-6753 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pay no attention to the man behind the man behind the curtain! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- from list nietzsche-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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