File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9803, message 60


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


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