There is no question that Nietzsche, throughout his works, encourages the
gay scientist to drink in all aspects of experience and the world and to
pay attention, above all, to every possible shred of data. Breaking reified
patterns of inquiry and thought (scientific or otherwise) would be
difficult to characterise as anything but central in Nietzsche's work.
On the issue of what is chosen and not chosen for publication, there is
nothing to say he wouldn't have published that bit if he hadn't blown a
headpipe. In terms of what he _did_ publish on the issue of physiology,
there are some gems there as well, such as his discussion in The Gay
Science of vegetarianism in India. And perhaps beer has been the downfall
of the German people.
Don't get me wrong. I believe there is everything to be said for a
wholistic approach to our inquiry of existence. I search for bits and
pieces everywhere and in so doing I mostly find what I am looking for. To
not find what I am looking for and accept it, or to find what I am not
looking for and be able to see it - these are true discoveries.
yours in the spirit of inquiry and entirely devoid of any animosity or my
dick is bigger than yours sentiment
>Leeson makes a juxtaposition of my comment with a bit of text from
>a book that N himself did not choose to publish. I don't have my
>library handy, but I hope that when I refer to N's praise (in the
>works that he did choose to publish, and prepared for the press
>himself) of physiology and his call for philosophers to pay more
>attention to such things as the exquisite analytical power of the
>human sense of smell, people won't have much trouble finding these
>citations.
>
>I said:
> > exquisitely bound up with physics
>
>but "exquisitely bound up with physiology" would have worked
>just as well.
>
>Leeson's quote said:
> > a firm systematization of atoms in necessary motion
>
>but my text with which he juxtaposed this made no mention of atoms,
>since no such mention was needed.
>
>I might also juxtapose N's refutation of metaphysical idealism, in
>which he painted that quaint notion as the idea that the sense
>organs create themselves through their own action. That's in BEYOND
>GOOD AND EVIL. If Leeson can find any text of N's to juxtapose in
>which N (who was always suffering from splitting headaches) questions
>the existence of sense organs and nerves, I'd be interested to see
>it.
>
>I've disclaimed the relevance of discussions of atomism to the text
>I wrote. Nonetheless, I might point out that N wrote the text
>Leeson has chosen into one of his private notebooks several decades
>before the Perrin experiment, which tested and failed to break
>Einstein's atomistic explanation of the Brownian motion. I suspect
>that N might have phrased things rather differently after being
>informed of this experiment. Particularly if he were planning to
>publish.
>
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>Eric Watt Forste ++ arkuat@pobox.com ++ expectation foils perception -pcd
>
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