File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9803, message 112


From: KK007 <KK007-AT-aol.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 13:30:13 EST
Subject: Re: Christians, Murderers of Jews - among others. -Reply...a comment


In a message dated 98-03-23 09:08:02 EST, you write:

<< Don't have the exact page numbers on hand,
 but I know Nietzsche spends a great part of
 the Genealogy dedicated to the distinction
 between "good and bad" and "good and evil."
 Further, if I remember correctly, it seems
 that bad and good are mere gradations of
 the same thing (N uses the example of
 vultures and lambs, from the perspective of
 vultures they of course are good [noble,
 strong] while lambs are certainly good to
 eat, they are, from the perspective of
 vultures bad [lowly, weak, pitiable]),
 while good and evil are metaphysically
 opposed.
 
 I don't mean to assert a might makes right
 philosophy from this, which too goddam many
 people have done, I just think that when
 morality has been used in this listserve,
 it has been used in too broad and sweeping
 a fashion. Nietzsche's eye for detail and
 nuance lost a lot of people along the way,
 including myself, of course. A book that I
 think pays close attention to some of these
 details is one called Nietzsche: Life as
 Literature by Nehamas, (I think).
  >>

Might IS right if one considers the fact that a complete surrender to the Law
of Nature is necessary for man to bridge the gap to overman...intellect is
nothing but a mere expression of will to live or will to power...inasmuch as a
wolf tries to eat the lamb, so does man exerts his power against another man,
is so obvious it does not deserve further comment...N. only puts all this in
unaccustomed form and merely states that the fact be completely accepted
compared to a disingenuous morality of the weak designed to strenthen the
"neighbor"...kk007-AT-aol.com


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