From: "James Hall" <ivan_84-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Rhodes Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 12:29:15 PST Mr. Rhodes, How much of N.'s work have you actually read? Maybe a quote here and there taken out of context in some history class on the Nazis? Read some more. When he says "beyond good and evil", he means that there is no longer a need for someone else's values; we should create our own. However, he is not supporting murder or genocide; not even rascism. From what I have read, he even seems to be pro-Jew. He means that there should no longer be a need for values based on self-contempt. Even without a god or good and evil, we can still have positive and meaningful lives. He embraces life, and does not feel that we should have to search for a meaning beyond life itself. Humanity is not perfect, but we should find our own solutions, real ones, that are relevant to life on earth. Every moment of our lives should be lived as if they would be relived, over and over. If this would be our eternity, then wouldn't we want to make those days as great as possible? What is more negative: the thought that we have our own worth and can define our own lives, or that we are creatures of sin who must bow down to something whose existence is very questionable in the first place? Is it better to follow your own judgement, or the the judgement of someone else who may even be wrong? Nihilism? I think not. -James ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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