File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_2000/nietzsche.0002, message 72


Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 09:52:33 -0600
From: "Daniel J. Dzenkowski" <djdzenko-AT-students.wisc.edu>
Subject: The real connection between Nietzsche and Zarathustra


At 10:23 PM 2/20/00 -0800, you wrote: 
>
> Apparently there is no real connection between Nietzsche and Zarathustra at
> all.  At least according to the Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy.  Until
> now I have simply allowed that question to fester, but I decided to read
> little further.  


I don't like the Cambridge guide.
In EH Why I am a destiny
"Does one want a formula for a destiny that has become man?  It stands in my
Zarathustra." 2

"I have not been asked, as I should have been asked what the name Zarathustra
means in precisely my mouth, in the mouth of the first immoralist: for what
constitutes the tremendous uniqueness of that person in Persian history is
precisely the opposite of this." (ie. Zarathustra was a moralist) "Zarathustra
was the first to see in the struggle between good and evil the actual wheel in
the working of things: the translation of morality into the realm of
metaphysics as a force, cause, end in itself, is his work.  But this question
at bottom is its own answer.  Zarathustra created this most fateful of errors,
morality; consequently he must also be the first to recognize it....The self
overcoming of morality through truthfulness, the self overcoming of the
moralist into his opposite - into me - that is what the name Zarathustra means
in my mouth." 3

Continued...
Dan




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