File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9806, message 44


From: "David R. J." <david_r_j-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: freedom of will
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 14:10:07 PDT


Cool. I sometimes find myself thinking "is there a short Nietzschean 
answer to this" about several things. I think he said there was no 
freedom of will because it was created as a reactive device to one's 
actions. There is a line between awareness and consciousness. If freedom 
of will is used a posteriori - to explain why the "noble" did "bad 
things", according to the "slave", then it is reactive. This is 
consciousness, as opposed to awareness.

Anybody (dis)agrees?

>Can anybody please tell me why according to FN there is no such thing 
as
>freedom of the will, or direct me to some of the available on-line 
texts
>where he points this out? For some odd reason I always find myself 
without
>words when people - especially religious people - state that there is. 
It's
>very frustrating to not be able to respond to a simple question such 
as:
>'well, you *do* have a choice, don't you?' I would like to deny that 
with a
>sound argument in less than 10 words. Thank you all.
>
>
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