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Date Posted: 16:03:05 06/17/04 Thu
Author: mt. healthy mountaineer
Subject: Re: On Nietzsche
In reply to: mvd 's message, "On Nietzsche" on 14:07:46 06/17/04 Thu

It is not Neitzsche's passion that I disagree with - it is his assertions that compassion is weak and the fulfillment of one's will is everything. How very "Mad Max". However, even Mad Max, in the end, uses his power and skills in the cause of compassion. In my mind, he learned, Neitzsche did not.

I find the whole anti-compassion thing unworthy.

Ironically, I found this (source: click here ) and have a bit more sympathy for the man because apparently even he did not fully believe what he was saying:

On a cold winter day in Turin, not long before being confined to the mental institutions where he would spend the rest of his life, Friedrich Nietzsche witnessed a man beating his donkey. An ass, a beast of burden, the lowest of the low. A master punishing a piece of property, a thing that happened to be alive and capable of feeling pain -- a scene that has been played out a million times in the history of the world. Nietzsche's response was immediate and dramatic: he rushed forward and embraced the ass, shielding it from its master's blows, weeping and sobbing uncontrollably in a paroxysm of spiritual agony.

The father of the Superman, in one of his last "sane" acts, gave way to uncontrollable compassion and pity for the helpless and suffering creatures of the world, embodied in this lowly donkey. In the end, the most influential moral philosopher of modern times reaffirmed the value of compassion: Nietzsche wept.

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Re: On Nietzsche -- mvd, 18:53:19 06/17/04 Thu
- Re: On Nietzsche -- mt. healthy mountaineer, 09:11:42 06/18/04 Fri