File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1995/nietzsche_Oct.95, message 7


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.


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