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From: John Evans Treat <treatje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sun, 06 Apr 1997 14:02:11 +0000
***Warning: Newbie Post***
On 6 Apr 97, Doug Henwood wrote:
> If
> morality shouldn't be communal, then why wouldn't it be moral for me
> to kill you? Or gouge out the eye of a passerby? Not in the legal
> sense, since obviously both would be felonies, but in the
> moral/ethical sense. Nietzsche might not have a problem with
> answering this, since there's one morality for slaves and another
> for masters. Presumably most of us don't accept that.
I wonder whether Nietzsche could ask, Why would one *want* to do
this -- especially given that by doing so one would weaken oneself,
since one would then be forever vulnerable to revenge, punishment?
Hardly a position of power. Doesn't real mastery also involve
self-possession and restraint? If you and I feel aggression toward
one another, can't we joyously affirm it and agree to transcend that,
and thus both become more powerful? I'm reminded of Gilgamesh and
Enkidu -- now *there* was a friendship. Does N. anywhere refer to
that epic? I can't recall.
Best regards,
John