File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9807, message 304


Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 22:04:25 -0700
From: Steve Callihan <callihan-AT-callihan.seanet.com>
Subject: Re:  Where, oh where is the jovial unity?


At 01:01 PM 7/18/98 EDT, MarkJE-AT-aol.com wrote:

>I would like to point out something: philosophy is just as much of a faith as
>religion.  It is a faith in logic as opposed to a faith in God.  Differences
>born of philosophical ideology have been just as destructive as religion.
The
>Nazis in particular were fans of Nietzsche's philosophy (albeit highly
>misinterpreted).

I don't think that "faith in logic" and "faith in God" are necessarily at
all equivalent. Interestly enough, Nietzsche here would seem to be
reversing the traditional ontology, where faith in God undergirds and
justifies faith in logic. Instead, for Nietzsche, it is faith in logic (or
grammer) that undergirds faith in God. It is thus the deconstruction of our
faith in logic that ultimately delivers the coup de grace to old fuddy-duddy.

S.





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