Re: Nietzsche and Metaphysics

Paul S. Rhodes (sadecamus@ezl.com)
Tue, 27 May 1997 09:31:17 -0500

Was ist gut? --Alles, was das Gefuehl der Macht, den Willen zur
Macht, die Macht selbst im Menschen erhoeht.
Was ist schlecht?--Alles, was aus der Schwaeche stammt.
--Antichrist, =A72

This, I suggest, just begs the question of what power and weakness are. I
know that sweet Lambda C will argue vociferously that this question has
been answered by Nietzsche's discussion of active and re-active forces. I
don't think this distinction as N. makes it valid, but let us for the sake
of argument say that it is. Since N. assigns different values to active
and re-active forces, his use of these terms, I would suggest, amounts to a
re-naming of good and bad and good and evil. Re-naming is hardling an
overcoming of metaphysics, it is just a silly game of semantics.

Paul S. Rhodes

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