File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9808, message 53


From: Sean Saraq <sean_saraq-AT-environics.ca>
Subject: RE: Values and Riddles
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 15:55:52 -0400 


Thanks for the reference! 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Steve Callihan [SMTP:callihan-AT-callihan.seanet.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, August 04, 1998 2:26 PM
> To:	nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> Subject:	RE: Values and Riddles
> 
> At 01:15 PM 8/4/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hi Dan,
> >
> >You are of course right that Nietzsche would have no use for "world
> >values" or for surveys. As you point out, what "everyone" happens to
> >believe is not his interest.
> >
> >Granted the Dutch as a people have not created or destroyed values.
> Has
> >any group, "as a people"? I do think from a sociological point of
> view
> >it would be interesting to see how these values which are not new,
> but
> >more preponderant in the Netherlands, work (or don't work).
> >
> >Sean Saraq
> >Toronto
> 
> The Dutch are historically at the very root of the rise of modern
> liberalism. On that score, they may perhaps be said to be THE
> value-creators for our era. For a very, very interesting book on the
> subject, see _Spinoza and the Rise of Liberalism_ by Lewis Samuel
> Feuer,
> Beacon Press, 1966.
> 
> Steve C.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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