From: storeyd (storeyd@bc.edu)
Date: Mon May 17 2004 - 03:52:30 BST
Dmb,
Excellent distinction, two kinds of evil; in the Genealogy of Morals,
Nietzsche addresses this very problem, in an essay that analyses the
distinction between "good and evil" and "good and bad." the former is
contingent/static, the latter absolute/dynamic. Nietzsche also attributes a
psychology to both forms of "evil/bad": slave morality and noble morality.
The slave morality first posits, conjures, or manufactures its concept of
Evil, then derives its concept of the good from that...in other words, the
moral horizon of the slave is drawn in the sand by the OTHER, the society,
whatever is dictated to him (what Kant called "heteronomous determination of
the the will").
The noble morality, however, recognizes what is good innately. His judgment
is pure, spontaneous, in line with DQ, the Tao, elan vital, whatever we want
to call it. thus the "bad", that which stifles creative effulgence, is
derivative, while the Good is primary. See, for Nietzsche, the universe is
not fallen, not sinful, and this is precisely the disease he attributes to
Christendom: it deems the world a fundamentally immoral ground on which
nothing good can be built (of course, Christ, as everybody knows, had narry a
word to say about sin). But there is no Evil for the nobleman, because the
nobleman knows that all people have different opinions about what good and
evil are...in short, Evil is really the confusion of SQ with DQ. Interesting
comparison though.
Anybody in the group a Nietzsche buff? He has a lot of similarities with
Pirsiq, even though most people will tell you otherwise. Somehow Nietzsche is
still being grossly misread. He counsels niether anarchy nor nihilism, and
the "will to power" is more about the "Tao" than "domination".
Best,
-Dave
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