From: lambdac-AT-globalserve.net
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 01:55:43 -0500
Subject: Re. The four cardinal virtues - or somethin' to abide by



"_The good four_. -- _Honest_ towards ourselves and whoever _else_ is a
friend to us; _brave_ towards the enemy; _magnanimous_ towards the
defeated; _polite_ -- always: this is what the four cardinal virtues
want
us to be." (Daybreak, 556)

Could our St. Callihan be proposing the Imitation of Nietzsche, as
Rhodes - more archaic and arcane - proposes the Imitation of Christ?

"Away, then, with the monk's cowl of renunciation!, with the humble
mien!  Much more and much better: that is how our truth sounds!  If
science were not united with the _joy_ of knowledge and the _utility_ of
what is known, what interest would we have in science?" (HATH, II, 1,
98)

Let us judge LC by the Nietzschean Inquisition, then - it is honest, to
friends and foes even; it is brave - at least looks like it is or likes
to think that it is; it is magnanimous too - but polite?  No way, José. 
And for good reasons -

"Live in war with your equals and with yourselves!" (GS, 283)

"In company lacking esprit - no one is grateful for the politeness the
man of esprit exhibits when he accomodates himself to a company in which
it is not polite to exhibit esprit" (HATH, I, 6, 324)

"One attacks someone not only so as to harm him or to overpower him, but
perhaps only so as to learn how strong he is" (HATH, I, 6, 317)

LC  no timorous deer concealed in the forests


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