Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 14:14:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Paul Bryant <levi_bryant-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Nietzsche was an optimist




--- Juan Cruz <juancarloscruz-AT-hotmail.com> wrote:
> Certainly and a man that wrote hours and hours for
> months with headaches, 
> backpains, colds, definitely has to be an Iron, a
> rock an almost superman

Sure, but this is a rather uninteresting way of
talking about matters...  Why not talk about what
Nietzsche said and what the concept of the "overman"
is (note I don't ask what *an* overman *is*...  for
the full prepositional force of *to move over*, to
become is embodied here:  no thing or person is an
overman, i.e., an accomplished state, instead, we can
only talk about those that have taken overcoming upon
themselves.  It's a verb, not a noun.) rather than
speculating on whether or not Nietzsche was such. 
This sort of speculation smacks of fetishism and hero
worship...  And, worse yet, brings tears of boredom to
one's eyes, such as are experienced when teenagers go
on and on about their favorite rock stars and
celebrities.

Paul
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