Nietzsche out of Nowhere
March 2nd, 2008, search relatedRelated posts :: The Nietzsche Family Circus :: Nietzsche and the Finnish killer :: The Nietzsche Family Circus :: Nietzsche and the Finnish killer
allen scult wrote:
> Not only do morality and power correlate in the thinking on the
> matter, but morality comes down to power in the raw acting out of
> it. Two people in a long term relationship disagree about a matter
> very important to both of them. As they work the dialectic through,
> they reach the inevitable bottom line: Whose most basic grounding
> moral principle will determine how we leave the matter, now and
> forevermore, through all of history? And of course there’s no one
> outside the two of them who can mediate some sort of compromise:
> They already thought through all of the possibilities. It’s him or
> her.
On the contrary, the counterexample to your analysis is the morality
regarding a parent and child in which the *parent* submits to a lesser
power (as every parent knows when one has a newborn). It would be
immoral to do otherwise, and yet the power relation is decidedly
asymmetrical in favor of the adult. Hence Levinas’ analysis of morality,
not Nietzsche’s.
