File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_2003/nietzsche.0307, message 7


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



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