[lbo-talk] Blue Dogs cashing in

Joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Sun Jul 26 01:33:02 PDT 2009


Christopher E. Doss Moscow, Russian Federation

"Morality" simply means the belief that some actions (usually interpersonal ones) are bad, and some actions are good.

You're missing a shade here, which I think Nietzche touched on when he wrote something like

"morality is virtue in search of justification."

I looked up Nietzche quotes to get the exact one and couldn't find it. It's somewhere in "Beyond Good and Evil." But there was some other stuff of his in the same vein. For example:

--Fear is the mother of morality.

--Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

--Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

If you see what he's getting at, you might conclude that wedding politics to morality is a bad idea.

Che spoke of revolution as being an expression of love. This would be consistent with the Nietzchean precepts above.

Joanna



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