... I think both the urge beyond oneself and the urge back to oneself (eros and thanatos, Shiva and Vishnu, art and truth) are at bottom the will to power: the...
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sauwelios
Nov 1, 2009 6:15 pm
... Correction: 'The difference is that in the latter case, one seeks to STAMP "what is most personal" in one's suffering on all things, whereas in the former...
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sauwelios
Nov 4, 2009 1:00 pm
Last night, in the course of one of my current projects---to understand *Beyond Good and Evil* as completely as possible for me (by reading Lampert's...
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sauwelios
Nov 16, 2009 5:31 pm
In the last two weeks or so, I have hardly read anything. And I have found that Nietzsche was right: not reading (i.e., not hearing others think) allows one's...
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sauwelios
Nov 18, 2009 1:33 pm
... I see I have not been consistent in capitalising the word "it" when referring to the Primordial One. I think it is clear in the above, though. I also think...
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sauwelios
Nov 23, 2009 3:27 pm
The reason the above two posts are so short, is that something struck me while writing them---the same thing in both cases. If I have understood him correctly,...
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sauwelios
Jan 8, 2010 7:20 pm
This Group departs from the following premises: 1. The Overman is a type of man — not a different species: "The problem I thus pose is not what shall succeed...
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sauwelios
Jan 8, 2010 7:47 pm
I have changed the Group Description, including the Description Title (which is also the group's subtitle), and also the group's Related Link. The new Related...
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sauwelios
Jan 19, 2010 7:38 pm
On second thought, I will change the Related Link back to what it was. I'm not getting anything off the ground *anywhere*, so I may just as well do it at The...
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sauwelios
Jan 20, 2010 1:32 pm
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...
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sauwelios
Jan 20, 2010 8:56 pm
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...
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sauwelios
Jan 24, 2010 8:55 pm
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...
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Moody
moodylawless
Jan 26, 2010 8:49 am
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...
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sauwelios
Jan 26, 2010 9:56 pm
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...
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Moody
moodylawless
Jan 27, 2010 7:48 am
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...
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sauwelios
Jan 27, 2010 11:39 am
Frankly, I find such remarks about contradictions in Nietzsche's philosophy sledge-hammer arguments (and I don't think one can philosophise with a...
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Moody
moodylawless
Jan 28, 2010 9:04 am
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,...
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sauwelios
Jan 28, 2010 8:17 pm
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...
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Moody
moodylawless
Jan 29, 2010 8:27 am
"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...
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sauwelios
Jan 29, 2010 6:21 pm
... 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...
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Moody
moodylawless
Jan 30, 2010 9:23 am
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...
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sauwelios
Jan 30, 2010 8:09 pm
... 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:...
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Moody
moodylawless
Feb 1, 2010 1:08 pm
Nietzsche made a very important statement about inspiration in that most crucial work for Nietzsche-interpretation, Ecce Homo. Here Nietzsche was reviewing his...
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sauwelios
Feb 1, 2010 6:23 pm
... This is essential: superstition is an indispensable ingredient if one is to have the idea that follows. one would ... This is interpretation, of course:...
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sauwelios
Feb 10, 2010 1:25 pm
... most ... what ... - ... is to have the idea that follows. ... these impressions? ... Mach called "elements";). And indeed, sense impressions are a kind of ...
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Moody
moodylawless
Feb 15, 2010 8:41 am
This mysterious correspondent has certainly imbibed from my well. As s/he has not replied, I think I understand their argument enough to add some thoughts and...
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sauwelios
Feb 16, 2010 10:46 pm
... To understand his position, we have to read well---especially this bit: "If one had the slightest residue of superstition left in one, one would be hardly...
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Moody Lawless
moodylawless
Feb 17, 2010 1:06 pm
And poets of "strong ages" believed super-stitiously in in-spir-ation. Â Strong ages and strong individuals were always super-stitious. Look at the ancient...
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perpetualburn52
Feb 17, 2010 10:42 pm
" The 'father' then being the 'true world', I take it. But positivism does not stop at abolishing the 'true world', but goes on to abolish the 'apparent world'...
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sauwelios
Feb 18, 2010 6:50 pm
... The distinction between solace and consolation was made by Moody in my thread on The Consolations of Nietzsche's Philosophy,...
