http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/ Sauwelian-Lampertian Nietzsche Group Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:23:01 GMT Sauwelios http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/472 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/472 ... This is essential: superstition is an indispensable ingredient if one is to have the idea that follows. one would ... This is interpretation, of course: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:08:12 GMT Moody http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/471 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/471 Nietzsche made a very important statement about inspiration in that most crucial work for Nietzsche-interpretation, Ecce Homo. Here Nietzsche was reviewing his Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:09:00 GMT Sauwelios http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/470 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/470 ... Of course, we do not have to *believe* Nietzsche when he says he is at bottom healthy. He does, however, strictly distinguish between healthy and decadent: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:23:08 GMT Moody http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/469 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/469 Nietzsche's own succumbing to a chronic illness shows that he did not 'resolve' this contradiction; he was - and remained - ill/healthy. The passage you quote Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:21:32 GMT Sauwelios http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/468 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/468 ... That is the opening sentence of section 2, in which he immediately goes on to explain this seeming contradiction 'away', i.e., to resolve it: "Agreed that Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:27:23 GMT Moody http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/467 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/467 "Agreed that I am a decadent, I am also the very reverse." [Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, 'Why I Am So Wise', 2] I think your latest 'Lampertian' trend is a Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:17:55 GMT Sauwelios http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/466 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/466 My comments below. ... Yes, please do. For what is revealed ("apparent") to you isn't revealed to *me*, apparently. ... I *do* seek to get a good picture of Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:04:32 GMT Moody http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/465 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/465 I think that Nietzsche actively phiolosophised via contradictions. This is not just apparent across the development of his work but even in single works - nay, Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:39:38 GMT Sauwelios http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/464 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/464 Frankly, I find such remarks about contradictions in Nietzsche's philosophy sledge-hammer arguments (and I don't think one can philosophise with a Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:48:04 GMT Moody http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/463 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/463 Even if the claim that "the world is will to power and nothing else besides" is considered to be an undogmatic, uncertain hypothesis, it still cannot be Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:56:37 GMT Sauwelios http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/462 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/462 I agree, but I think what you say about archai only applies to *dogmatic* archê-claims. As Lampert emphasises (see the new Group Description), the Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:49:33 GMT Moody http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/461 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/461 Thanks for raising this again. For me, a Perspective [P] always suggests that there is 'something else besides' the P. There must be other Ps, just as there Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:55:21 GMT Sauwelios http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/460 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/460 In *TSZ*, the Overman is the Alpha (taught already in the Prologue), the Eternal Recurrence the Omega ('officially' embraced in the final seven of the book's Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:56:03 GMT Sauwelios http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/459 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/459 I forgot to mention my most telling discovery regarding *WP* 569. Before I mention it, however, let me first qualify my remark about the manuscript. I have not Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:32:47 GMT Sauwelios http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/458 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/human_superhuman/message/458 When I created this Group, I thought the great human being---under whatever monicker, whether "genius" or "Overman"---was the Alpha and Omega of Nietzsche's