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. _____________________________________________________________________________ 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 --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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