From: villanova-AT-btopenworld.com Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:32:54 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: Virillio quoting Nietzsche Hi, how are you? I´m in Germany for the Summer, in fact I have an exhibition of paintings in cafe Littfass, Freiburg, near the Cinemax. If you can make it you might also get to talk to the artist for a while over a jar of the local Braueri Ganter Pils, not a bad potion, best wishes, Paul Murphy > from: Scribe1865-AT-aol.com > date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:06:47 > to: nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu > subject: Re: Virillio quoting Nietzsche > > 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. Paul Murphy Tel: 0044 02890 659866 Fax: 0044 02890 322767 --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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