From: "John T. Duryea" <jtduryea-AT-dmv.com>
Subject: Re: Zarathustra Going Under
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 19:23:53 -0500



-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Dzenkowski <djdzenko-AT-students.wisc.edu>
To: nietzsche-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
<nietzsche-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
Date: Saturday, July 11, 1998 3:27 PM
Subject: Zarathustra Going Under


>At 08:58 PM 7/10/98 -0500, lambdaC wrote:
>>  But what is this BS about the love of Man?  Nietzsche
>>was hardly caught up in this business of loving mankind or the Human
>>Form.
>>
>>Love of Man?  Look around in this List - what is there one could
>>possibly love?
>
>        Point taken about looking around, but isin't that the pain of the
>eternally recurring small man?  Why did Nietzsche have so many problems
with
>the ER. The thought of his sister and mother, they disgusted him.
>
>        About the love of mankind..."Zarathustra has changed, Zarathustra
>has become a child, Zarathustra is an awakened one; what do you now want
>among the sleepers?  You lived in your solitude as in the sea, and the sea
>carried you. Alas, would you now climb ashore? Alas, would you again drag
>your own body?
>        Zarathustra answered: 'I love man.'
>        'Why' asked the saint, 'did I go into the forest and the desert?
>Was it  not because I loved man all-too-much?  Now I love God; man I loved
>not. Man is for me too imperfect a thing.  Love of man would kill me.'
>        Zarathustra answered:' Did I speak of love?  I bring men a gift.'
>
>Dan
>


The Becoming Imperium...

John T. Duryea



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