Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:27:38 -0500
From: "John C. Merritt" <beowulf-AT-bga.com>
Subject: Re: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche


At 04:26 PM 10/24/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Why Schopenhauer instead of Jacob Burckhardt? One could also see Nietzsche 
>as using Burckhardt's rhetoric and content to develop a philosophical momentum.
>
>Furthermore, why Schopenhauer rather than Lou Andreas Salome? One could 
>view many of Nietzsche's rhetorical sparks as a reaction to his amorous 
>contretemps with Lou Salome. For example, the famous "When you go to a 
>woman, remember your whip," contrast with the photo where it is Lou 
>Andreas Salome who holds the whip.
>
>etc. & etc.
>
>In other words, limiting your thesis to Schopenhauer, though easy for an 
>academic focus and seeming quite reasonable, does tend to render FN 
>two-dimensional.

Besides, Schopenhauer is the obvious choice, and may have already been 
covered -- possibly ad nauseum. Lou or Burckhardt -- or Paul Ree or Plato, 
or even Wagner -- would be a better choice simply because you would go 
where the trail is no so well marked. Trailblazing is, after all, a 
Nietzschean trait.



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