File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9803, message 49


Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 09:51:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: J Poxon <poxon-AT-saclink.csus.edu>
Subject: Re: Smirking at Nihilism



On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Paul S. Rhodes wrote:

> interpretation.  But, Mr. Callihan, seriously, if we put "good" and "evil"
> behind us, then nothing is good and nothing is evil.  So, what then is the
> Holocaust, eh?  We can call it the product of "reactive forces", but, see,
> the binary opposition of "active" and "reactive" is just "good" and "evil"
> for those who want to salvage Nietzschean philosophy by wordgames.  Lambda

On the other hand, the attempted eradication of the Jews was justified in 
terms of a metaphysics of good and evil--the Nazis were "good" and the 
Jews, clearly, were "evil"--so what happens to that attempt if the 
metaphysics that underwrites it is undone?

Judith Poxon
poxon-AT-saclink.csus.edu


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