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 --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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