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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 12:41:06 -0600
From: "Daniel J. Dzenkowski" <djdzenko-AT-students.wisc.edu>
Subject: NIetzsche an immoralist par excellence


>> Syphon soul wrote:
>  It is not about discrediting Nietzsche... it is about showing how he is not
>an immoralist, but not a moralist either.

I think Nietzsche is an immoralist in the higest sense.  This does not
beliece that he does not believe in ethics, however, that is another topic.

In EH Why I am a destiny 4.
He says:
"Fortunately the world has not been constructed for the satisfaction of the
instincts such as would permit merely good natured herd animals to find
their narrow happiness in it; to demand that everything should become good
man, herd animal, blue eyed (This is an attack on Wagner), benevloent,
beautiful soul or as Mr. Herbert Spencer wants, altruistic, would mean to
deprive existence of its great character, would mean to castrate mankind
and to reduce it to paltry Chinadom. - And this has been
attempted!...Precisely this has been called morality....In this sense
Zarathustra calls the good now the last men...most harmful species to
mankind, because they preserve their existence as much at the expense of
truth as at the expense of the future."

How can he not be an immoralist?
Dan.  



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