Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 19:44:22 -0600 From: "Paul S. Rhodes" <sadecamus-AT-sprintmail.com> Subject: Re: Smirking at Nihilism >One argument would be that the eternal return is an embracing of nihilism >in order to overcome it and get past it. This brings metaphysics to an end >as well. So, rather than struggling with the metaphysicians on their own >grounds, constantly having to come up with some replacement for their >"explanations", one reaches a point where no explanation is required since >the question is devalued. Thus nihilism is erased at the source. > >evan ...and everything else is erased as well, leaving us with absolutely Nihil. Sounds like nihilism to me. _____________________________________________________________________________ My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. --Wilfred Owen Patriotism is the last refuge of a scroundel. --Samuel Johnson Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot. --Al Franken --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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