From: "Burton, Walter" <WBurton-AT-PIPESTREAM.COM> Subject: RE: Smirking at Nihilism Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 06:11:15 -0500 Good show! \\/alter > -----Original Message----- > From: callihan-AT-callihan.seanet.com [mailto:callihan-AT-callihan.seanet.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 19, 1998 9:48 PM > To: nietzsche-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu > Subject: Re: Smirking at Nihilism > > > Friedrick Haines wrote: > > >[...]I thought I'd take this opportunity to open a big can of worms. > >Now mind you, I ain't no expert, but I have read a lot of Nietzsche's books > >and I've read a lot of books about Nietzsche. I've never seen where > Nietzsche > >says anything that would brand him as a Nihilist; to the contrary, I've only > >seen where he castigates the "metaphysicians" and religions (especially > >Christianity as embodied by "The Church") for their nihilism, by which they > >deny life and stigmatize it with "sin" in favor of death or else some > >pipedream about what is supposed to replace this world after its destruction. > >But I see everywhere people burning "Nihilist" into Nietzsche's presumptively > >damned flesh. Would someone please explain to me how it is that Nietzsche > >(who, as I said, I've only seen anti-nihilistic statements from) gets turned > >into a "Nihilist" by the advocates of the metaphysicians and religions who > >themselves have a long way to go to absolve themselves of that taint > (at least > >insofar as I may be a Judge)? > > "_On the genesis of the nihilist._ -- It is only late that one musters the > courage for what one really knows. That I have hitherto been a > thorough-going nihilist, I have admitted to myself only recently: the energy > and radicalism with which I advanced as a nihilist deceived me about this > basic fact. When one moves toward a goal it seems impossible that > 'goal-lessness as such' is the principle of our faith." (WP #25) > > One does not overcome Nihilism (the Big N) by denying it, but only by > affirming it (as someone else said earlier). All resistance to the mass is > fatal. > > Eubie the Mensch > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > =A6 Steven E. Callihan =A6 "The more mistrust, =A6 > =A6 =A6 the more philosophy." =A6 > =A6 URL: http://www.callihan.com/ =A6 =A6 > =A6 E-Mail: callihan-AT-callihan.com =A6-F. Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 346.=A6 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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