From: Sean Saraq <sean_saraq-AT-environics.ca>
Subject: RE: Just ignore them
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 15:17:34 -0400 


Hi Patrick,

I think that though Nietzsche does not hold Christ in the same contempt
as he holds the negative nihilism of Christianity, he is ultimately not
a fan of the passive nihilism of Christ either. Re: the death of God, it
has many meanings, and he is not always lamenting (though it is true he
sometimes is). One meaning of the death of God is precisely the death of
this camel-like and slavish sensibility that is overburdened with
"though shalt". His death realized through the lion-like "I will" opens
the way for the more child-like (and even more animal-like, in the sense
of somatic knowledge) sensibility of the Overman.

Sean Saraq
Toronto



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Krueger [SMTP:Patrick.Krueger-AT-Colorado.EDU]
> Sent:	Friday, August 07, 1998 1:51 PM
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> Subject:	Re: Just ignore them
> 
> Fine idea Mr. callihan.  Now lets talk Nietzsche.
> 
> I have never been able to reconcile His apparent disgust for the
> slave/christian morality with his admiration for christ and his
> lament's
> that god is dead and as a concomitant (purpose/meaning/??) has left as
> well.  I think it may be less of a sorrow over the loss of god and
> more of
> a sorrow over the burgeoning scientific  trends of his (and our own)
> times
> which can tell us which direction is the most effecacious to achieve
> an
> end, yet it cannot help us decide upon an _ultimate_ end.  Christ
> could at
> least provide a mark for emulation and an end to immitate.
> 
> So, any thoughts on the issue?
> 
> PMK
> 
> 
> 
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