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 --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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