File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_2000/nietzsche.0006, message 16


Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:12:05 +0500
From: Khan <fiazk-AT-psh.paknet.com.pk>
Subject: Re: Convictions


George Sherwood wrote:
> 
> "Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more
> uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right
> and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of
> men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped
> them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always
> skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is
> based on "I am not too sure."' -HL Mencken
> 
> C.f. N's "rather have the courage for an attack on one's convictions."
> 
> George
> "Having resentment is like taking poison and waiting
> for the other person to die" -- Malachy McCourt.
> 

	Skepticism is good. On the other hand Nietzsche spoke of a "healthy" 
skepticism and a "spider skepticism". Can you differentiate between the
two ?


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