Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 11:55:53 -0700
From: callihan-AT-callihan.seanet.com (Steven E. Callihan)
Subject: Re: Nietzsche as Psychologist


Have since found that _askesis_ in Greek means "discipline," specifically in
the form of _a discipline_ or "practice," a term I pressume was applied to
and by the Stoical schools of philosophy (the Platonic as well?).  Thus, we
might be able to loosely interpret "from askesis to aesthesis" as "from work
to play" (I assume "self-overcoming" as work and "self-stylization" as play).

>Hi.  I guess I'll kick it off.  We can see Nietzsche's conceptualization
>of the "ascetic life" as a matter of self-overcoming; specifically, a
>means of overcoming our ressentiment and slavishness which we might
>otherwise endulge and embellish.
>Taken a step further, then, living the "philosophical life" -- ironically
>of course -- constitutes an continual self-transgression and
>takes us from askesis to aesthesis through a ongoing self-overcoming and
>self-stylization.
>
>--todd
>
==============================================================================            Steven E. Callihan -- callihan-AT-callihan.seanet.com
  
               "Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy 
                  what we do not doubt in our hearts."

        --Charles S. Peirce, "Some Consequences of Four Incapacities," 
               _Journal of Speculative Philosophy_ (1868)
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