[lbo-talk] Nietzsche

[Jeffrey Fisher]

On 6/28/07, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 28 Jun, 2007, at 14:38 PM, Peter Ward wrote:
>
> > Nietzsche is somewhat unique among philosophers: most have been
> > content simply to convince themselves that God is on their side
> > (Hegel, for instance); Nietzsche, however, would only be content as
> > God. To this end he succeeded – he went insane.
>
>
> IMHO:
>
> ;-) I have only one bit of warning for Nietzsche beginners: remember,
> when you look deep into the Nietzsche, the Nietzsche looks deep into
> you! That should be obvious by the overabundance of Nietzschean
> clichés and cliché'd readings, but it doesn't hurt to reiterate. As
> Heidegger says (I think in one of the two volumes on Nietzsche that I
> recommended a while ago -- or perhaps in "What is called Thinking")
> the important thing in reading Nietzsche is to get past him. He does
> a great job of shaking up the foundations, the terra firma of various
> forms of thought/analysis, etc...
>
>         --ravi

i don't remember that from WICT, but it sounds about right. and it  gibes
with my reading., which is even better. :-)

j

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