From: "John Duryea" <jtduryea-AT-dmv.com>
Subject: Re: Catholics- Inveterate murderers of life!
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 21:15:27 -0600




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From: Pedro Augusto Parga <pedro-AT-mls.com.br>
To: nietzsche-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
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Date: Monday, March 23, 1998 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: Catholics- Inveterate murderers of life!


>
>>ontological meaning of the Eternal Recurrence, (following Deleuze's
>>thread, undoubtedly!) to know that what returns is not reactive life,
>
>
>Perhaps someone could explain me something (I am far from these small wars,
>I just want to discuss Nietzsche): I have some problems with Deleuze's
>interpretation of the Eternal Return, specially where he says that the
>reactive forces don't come back. If the ER is put as an ethical  imperative
>like "would you do something so that you also wish its ER?", doesn't it
>sound like an universal kantian-like moral, the one that N. wanted to
>destroy? And doesn't it destroy the innocence that should exist in the
noble
>man's actions (a noble wouldn't ask himself - he would do it).And, more
>importantly, isn't the point of the "pathos of distance" important in the
>notions of active / reactive? If there were no reactive forces, there would
>be no active f. as well. And doesn't Zarathustra feel the weight of this
>thought when explaining it to the dwarf (hasn't he discoverered that the
>dwarf would also return eternally)?
>
>Just discussion, no war
>
>Pedro Parga
>
>
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In 1912 the German meteorologist Alfred Wegener proposed the theory of
"continental drift" to explain various phenomenon including the seeming way
in which continents must have once fit together. It was on his part an
intuitive insight in that there was no knowledge base that could even begin
to explain how land masses such as continents could drift apart thousands of
miles. We now know the answer in the fact of plate tectonics.

Nietzsche's ideas grew and evolved as the power of his intellect and wisdom
strengthened. The idea of the superman was purely Darwinian and was
abandoned by N in BGE. In BGE there is only a limited allusion to ER in
section 56. However, a careful reading of BGE will show that N has
transformed his original intuitive insight of the ER into a certain
understanding of one of the greatest of human mysteries, the fact of the
cultural lifecycle.

John T. Duryea



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