Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 23:16:20 -0500 From: Dan Dzenkowski <djdzenko-AT-students.wisc.edu> Subject: Re: Nietzsche on Thought as Process... At 12:51 PM 9/20/98 -0400, Randall Albright wrote: . What was the historical Zarathrustra all about? Any conjectures that he actually introduced concepts like good and evil, things which Nietzsche wants to get beyond? Or does Nietzsche want to get beyond what is merely perceived as "good" and "evil" and still remember that some things are "good" and "bad"? This gets into "perspectivalism", don't you think? I don't mean that he was only a Greek, how could that be? He wanted to retreat to the classical world to escape from 'progressive' ideas. The Question about Z, is one which N. resolves himself. Why I am a destiny #3 Ecce Homo His project in BG&E is to do far more than get beyond good and evil. He uses good and evil to mean different things. Sometimes good and evil mean healthy. Things are not good or evil, or even bad, it all comes down to healthy or unhealthy...life or decadence from a personal perspective, not a universal one. Perspectivism, as far as health is concerned, and it is usually the individual that knows if they are healthy or unhealthy, not someone else telling them, like the Church telling them that even though they may be healthy they are unhealthy. Dan --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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