Date: Mon, 10 Aug 98 14:56 CST
From: Ingrid Markhardt <IMARK-AT-macc.wisc.edu>
Subject: Re: 1st section, 1st prologue: answers in the form of questi


I think it is not a matter of "identities" in the remotest sense.  The
principle of non-contradiction doesn't apply.  Zarathustra
is the precursor, the lightning, the bridge.  He does not become the
_Ubermensch_; the _Ubermensch_ is becoming.  Zarathustra is not under
obligation to go under; he _wills_ it (there is a difference).  Inescapably
there is antagonism in working on the ugly stone man (see _The Gay Science_).
 
					Ingrid
 
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>> >4) Why must Zarathustra go under? What is this going under?
>>
>> This "going under" is to sink, to decline (perhaps even like a
>> verb), to set (like the sun), to perish, to cross over.  Zarathustra "must"
>> not (no should, no ought); he will(s).  Zarathustra is a bridge, a passing over
>> to the ubermench.
>>
>> 			Ingrid
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>To go under, the setting of the sun, to perish.  Zarathustra must go under
>because he is not yet the overman.  That which he is must perish that he
>may become his own overature.  He cannot become the overman and still
>remain that which he is now, because the two identities would be in
>perpetual antagonism (two quanta cannot occupy the same space at the same
>time; if by definition they must anhiliate each other than one must perish
>at the expense of the other).  Perhaps there is no room for tolerance in
>the self.
>
>PMK
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