From: "John T. Duryea" <jtduryea-AT-dmv.com>
Subject: Re: Science and  Nature
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 07:26:03 -0500




> Does N. really despise Science or the Scientest? Mabey, but I really don't
>think that N.  had any more feelings for these than he did Relegion.
Rather
>I think it is Nietzsche' s intention is to show how Science has become the
new
>Christianity in the west.  Science has replaced relegion.  The mouthpeice
of
>the most basic questions of man have found a new home.  No longer do we
look
>to the Church for the foundations of our faith, rather we look to physics,
>biology.  Science is the new faith , and the scientist is her preist.  We
have
>replaced one Master Narrative for another, but always it is just a
narative.
> To say that N. despised relegion, I think is to go to far.  To despise it,
is
>to recognise it. That is what N. was fighting against.  If one was so
inclined
>I am sure that someone could find quotes that would contradict this claim.
>But to take N. at the literal, is to belittle him.  Not only where his
ideas
>the work of genius, But he used the voice of a poet to convey them.  It is
no
>wonder the greeks took poetry, to be a test of truth.
>
>M.E.
>


I used the word "trashed", and in the conrext of from LambdaC's perspective
as a good little Marxist, N did in fact "trash" scientists. Science is to
religion what civilization is to culture, it is the decadent form of the
original phenomenon. Fact. Yes, I know, this grates tremendously on the
sensibilities of "modern ideas". Too bad.

John T. Duryea




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