File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9803, message 65


Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 20:23:39 -0600
From: "Paul S. Rhodes" <sadecamus-AT-sprintmail.com>
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
>
>Indeed, mass-murder would seem to be predicated on belief in evil, belief
>that what one is murdering is evil. Otherwise, why bother? I mean, all the
>blood, ugh...
>
>The original inhabitants of Tasmania were all hunted down like dogs, every
>man, woman, and child, and murdered by men who undoubtedly considered
>themselves to be "Good Christians" in every respect. Most of the Indian
>population of California was murdered in the same fashion, by those who felt
>themselves to be quite morally justified and Christian. It would seem,
>ironically, that we have only begun to becom moral by being able to question
>morality.
>
>Best,
>
>Steve

But, Mr. Callihan, once we put behind us concepts of "good" and "evil", you
cannot call these Christians the hypocrites they most evidently are.


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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

Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot.
                              --Al Franken






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