File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9801, message 41


Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 19:22:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Kelly Timothy Lynch <ktlynch-AT-vex.net>
Subject: Re: Nietzsche on Mill and Darwin -Reply


On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Evan Leeson wrote:

> This is one of the more illuminating and interesting points Nietzsche makes
> on this topic and I include it merely to spur on this discussion:
> "Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of
> self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of the organic being. A living
> thing seeks above all to discharge its strength - life itself is will to
> power;  self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent
> results."
> 
> Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (trans.: Walter Kaufmann), New York:
> Vintage Books (1989), p. 21

Aha!  I just saw this after sending out the other message you
will be reading!  THIS is the very passage I begin with!
(See my other post)  (The whole #13 actually includes a 
reference to the "Inkonsequenz Spinozas"--my title....)

Take care,

     Kelly Timothy Lynch     ||    "Dei potentia est
       ktlynch-AT-vex.net       ||  ipsa ipsius essentia."
   Toronto, Ontario, Canada  ||         Spinoza



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