From: David Morey (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Mon May 17 2004 - 19:52:15 BST
Hi Dave
You are right about Nietzsche, Pirsig has
much in common. Worth developing if you have the time.
Pirsig inherits much of German philosophy I'd say.
regards
David M
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From: "storeyd" <storeyd@bc.edu>
To: "moq_discuss" <moq_discuss@moq.org>; "David Buchanan"
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Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 3:52 AM
Subject: RE: MD Quality evil destruction contingency
> 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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