From: "John T. Duryea" <jtduryea-AT-dmv.com> Subject: Re: Values and Riddles - The Grass is Always Greener... Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 10:47:37 -0500 >At 10:45 AM 8/4/98 -0400, Sean Saraq wrote: >>I'm happy to see that there are quite a few Dutch people on the list. As >>you may be aware, the World Values Survey, which is the largest survey >>of socio-cultural values in the world, found the Netherlands to be the >>most "postmodern" in its values of the 43 countries surveyed. So I look >>forward to your comments, since you seem to be in the lead of where the >>world is heading, at least in terms of social values. And don't forget, >>Nietzsche was writing philosophy for the following two centuries, so we >>still have a Nietzsche-inspired/foretold century to go! Hopefully >>someday I'll have the chance to live in Amsterdam and learn from you >>directly. > >World Values Survey? >Nietzsche was very concerned with Values and as far as I know the Dutch as a >people (that are so very progressive or even modern) have neither created or >destroyed any values. It seems to me that Nietzsche would be horrified at >the thought of world values. He was more interested in the values of >individuals or peoples as long as they exhibited a will to health (opposite >of decadence). > "Whatever makes them rule and triumph and shine to the awe of their >neighbors, that is to them the high, the first, the measure, the meaning of >all things. Verily my brother ,once you have recognized the need and land >and sky and neighbor of a people you may also guess the law of their >overcomings, and why they climb to their hope on this ladder." thousand and >one goals > >A possible answer to this riddle...the need for the love of life that wills >its self. What is the love of life? The esteem that one has over a creation. > >Another riddle, this time from Ecce Homo. What is the meaning of Ariadne as >a response to the night song? > >Why does a god need a woman that is left upon the shore by a brave hero >(Theseus)? Dionysius as a redeemer of Ariadne's past..sounds a bit >Wagnerian. Any thoughts? > >Dan > Ahhh, Dan, I wouldn't mind it too much when the provincials cast a longing eye now and then on some other would-be possessor. Even we Romans from time to time look back at Athens and it's decadence with bemusement. I think Holland, and for that matter, most of Europe makes a great living museum to brotherly love free-thinkers and their "modern ideas". For some balance, one might chat up an Indonesian about Dutch benevolence. John T. Duryea --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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