[lbo-talk] Nietzsche

[Miles Jackson]

Carrol Cox wrote:
> Miles Jackson wrote:
>   
>> N's argument that the
>> self is a useful fiction--or even better, that truth is
>>
>>     a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms--in
>>     short, a sum of human relations, [sic] which have been enhanced,
>>     transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which
>>     after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people:
>>     truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what
>>     they are.
>>
>> I:'ll say this was a metaphorical 2 x 4 upside my head the first time I
>> read it; I guess we get shaken up by different philosophical challenges!
>>     
>
> The direction of this is pretty much the same as that of Marx's sixth
> thesis on Feuerbach, human essence as "the ensemble of the social
> relations." Those words have informed my thought for nearly 40 years.
>
> Carrol
>
>   
Yes, Marx and Nietzsche are on the same page here: the creative power of 
social relations.  (That's why I don't get CB's antagonism about Fred.  
Sure, N hated socialists, but N completely agrees with old Whiskers on 
this basic philosophical level.)

Miles