File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_2000/nietzsche.0004, message 90


Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 16:03:34 +0530
From: "Chand B. Rangwani" <indi_orpheus-AT-crosswinds.net>
Subject: Perspectivism


"I think that when people can see the world without the grubbiness of personal
reaction, that is what I mean by the aesthetic dimension, they live and let live
more."
                               - erick hawkins

I am amazed at the amount of verbal violence on this list, although the
Kierkegaard one I was on earlier was worse.

Nz's perspectivism, according to Nehemas, claims that there is no view of the
world that is binding on everyone. Every view depends on and manifests special
values and attitudes towards life, that is to be accepted only by those who want
to make those values their own.

Okay, someone thinks Hitler was good, someone thinks the other has got it wrong,
but to each his own. It's clear we are not discussing social good and charity
here. That happens on the Bill Gates listserv.

I don't think there is anything wrong in being a fascist, racist or a motherfucker
- just as its not all that pathetic studying law and becoming a lawyer. To each
his own. Let us remember that the Enlightenement values like liberty, equality and
democracy do not hold true anymore for many of us. The affirmative culture doesn't
guarantee anything!

Marcuse quotes Heidegger on authenticity: Action doesn't mean deciding in favor
of, for that presupposes that one knows in favour of what one is deciding; rather,
action means, setting off in a direction, taking sides, by vote of a mandate of
destiny, by virtue of one's own right...It is really secondary to decide in favor
of something I have come to know. Gadamer's hermaneutic philo too is that
"understanding" must be historically, culturally and linguistically meditated,
that there is always some pre-understanding or prejudice that makes our encounter
with tradition possible at all.

Doesn't the same hold with words spat out at the spur on a list like this?  That
someone has a lesser or greater understanding of Nz than the other should only
help us see how difficult it is to implement the Nietzschean life as we know it.
If it's this bad within those who have read Nz, how much worse it is for the
followers of Nz in the world we live!

Sure a lot of us get it wrong. Hitler did, so did Heidegger. But for now, let's
just talk.

All those in favour, type in Aye!



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