File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9809, message 61


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



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