File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9803, message 35


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.


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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

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