Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 07:55:38 -0800 From: Paul Weighell <pweighell-AT-earthlink.net> Subject: Re: Truth and the enahncement of the quality of life Arnold Schwarzeneger and Ayn Rand are saying the same thing - Nietzsche seems moe and more a psyschologist a la Alfred Adler than a Philosopher. Maybe Danto`s book title, "Niet. as Philosopher" wasn`t so snobby as I initially thought. "Gen. of Morals" as kindergarten/pop culture psychology, anyone? Daniel J. Dzenkowski wrote: > At 06:41 PM 1/19/00 +0000, John Wallisswrote: > >As I said, I'm interested in Ns ideas and have read both the sources and a > >few commentaries, however I'm stumped on one issue - the Will To Power. > >As far as I'm aware N is saying all attempts to truth are a reflection of > >WTP - the question then is therefore is this a version of the 'liar's > >paradox', i.e. Nietzsche the philosopher of the WTP saying that the WTP is > >the > >basis of all forms of truth? > >I'm also interested in his argument in BGE about willing 'untruth' and the > >relationship of truth to instinct. by this is he meaning that he doesn't > >object to Christianity because its 'wrong' as such but because its life > >negating in some way. > > I don't think that Nietzsche is so concerned with truth. Plato was > looking for truth and pretty much from that point on mainstream philosophy > has concerned itself with finding truth. Where has this gotten us? > Philosophy has gotten away from discovering a way to make the quality of > life better by placing such a heavy emphasis on finding truth. This goes > back at least to Socrates reason=happiness=virtue, and I am assuming here > that truth plays a heavy part in reason. Nietzsche is fighting against > philosophy, much as Wittgenstein and Diogenes of Sinope did. Nietzsche > does not say that un-truth is better than truth, but that through exploring > all of the possibilities of truth and untruth, instead of restricting > yourself to truth, that you will be more able to enhance the quality of > your life. > Ok, onto the will to power. In Zarathustra On Self-Overcoming "And life > itself confided to me:'Behold' it said, 'I am that which must always > overcome itself. Indeed, you call it a will to procreate or a drive to an > end, to something higher, farther, more manifold: but all this is one, and > one secret.' " > The drive to overcome yourself over and over again to become something > greater than you previously were. The will to power is the basic drive > that underlies every aspect of life. Similar to Freud and with the forces > of Thanatos and Eros. The will to power has nothing to do with truth it is > about life and in some strange way that is the highest truth, but the point > is to leave logic and reason out of the equation and place instinct as the > highest priority against them. > Nietzsche objects to Christianity, since it denies the value of the > instincts, which are based in part on the physical world. Instinct is a > product of the body and the mind (Nietzsche does not see them separately). > Christianity solely wants to concentrate on the mind. So Christianity is > life-denying, because it does not include the physical and devalues it > through its teachings. > > LambdaC are you out there? > Daniel J. Dzenkowski > > --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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