From: "John T. Duryea" <jtduryea-AT-dmv.com>
Subject: Re: morality as timidity
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 10:37:00 -0500



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From: Jesse bloom <essej-AT-hotmail.com>
To: nietzsche-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
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Date: Friday, July 03, 1998 4:43 AM
Subject: morality as timidity


>Could anyone please take some time to give me some interpretations of
>what N wrote in BGE 196? i'm a little confused about it .
>
>And the succeeding sections 197 198 ... what are your interpretations of
>the "morality as timidity" chapter that N was talking about ? I'm unsure
>of how to read it ..
>
>jesse.
>


There was not a timid bone in Nietzsche's body (BGE 23). N, as always, was
delving deep into a very difficult issue in BGE 196.

Quite frankly, you raise a great deal of questions which simply cannot be
grasped without physiognomic insight into the question of a morphology
of cultures. That is, although we are all human, there is no such thing as
"mankind", there are "mankinds". We are all humans but there are fundamental
cultural differences. Certainly there can be both diversity and a symphonic
type of contrapuntal imperial harmony. After all, cultural differences pale
in
comparison to the differences between man and woman.

Culture is a prime phenomenon and is appreciated by living into rather than
dissection:

"The highest to which man can attain, is wonder, and if the prime phenomenon
makes him wonder, let him be content; nothing higher can it give him, and
nothing further should he seek for behind it; here is the limit."


           - - -   Goethe

John T. Duryea









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