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From: Scribe1865-AT-aol.com
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:06:47 EDT
Subject: Re: Virillio quoting Nietzsche



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In a message dated 7/16/2003 2:16:03 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
elliot-AT-kolumbus.fi writes:


> But I'm not sure what counts as excess any more. 

Nietzsche's father being a Lutheran minister, one could drive the issue back 
to the religion Nietzsche so effectively criticized. The Greek word usually 
translated as "lust" in English versions of the Bible -- epithumia --means, in 
moral contexts, an excessive desire for a good thing. Lust is therefore not a 
desire for "bad" things, but an excessive desire for good things. 

Nietzsche must have been aware of this, and may have been influenced by that 
notion. He would perhaps see excessive desire for excitement as an obstacle to 
self-overcoming.

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In a message dated 7/16/2003 2:16:03 PM Eastern Standard Time, elliot-AT-kolumbus.fi writes:


But I'm not sure what counts as excess any more.


Nietzsche's father being a Lutheran minister, one could drive the issue back to the religion Nietzsche so effectively criticized. The Greek word usually translated as "lust" in English versions of the Bible -- epithumia --means, in moral contexts, an excessive desire for a good thing. Lust is therefore not a desire for "bad" things, but an excessive desire for good things.

Nietzsche must have been aware of this, and may have been influenced by that notion. He would perhaps see excessive desire for excitement as an obstacle to self-overcoming.
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