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! ss > -----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. > > > > > --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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