Durant wrote:
>
> How can you put "revenge" as No 1, Only few societies
> allow that semi-legally, such as Sardinia or Afganistan.
[snip]
Revenge is not limited to blood feud killing. Every
time a person in power makes a young aspirant "pay their
dues" as a condition for advancement, because the
current power holder had to undergo such an ordeal
him or herself to get to their position of power
(teacher, boss, parent, etc.), *that's* REVENGE.
Nietzsche wrote: "That man be delivered from the
spirit of revenge is for me a bridge to the highest
hope and a rainbow after long storms". Nietzsche was
not just talking about Neoclassical Neanderthals
clubbing each other over the head.... Alice Miller
(_For Your Own Good_, etc.) makes the same point
about childrearing today.
> There is no such thing as a
> definable, constant "human nature", since homo sapiens appeared.
> The social environment defines our behaviour, which changes
> primarily with the social environment and not with the
> natural environment.
Amen! A friend recently sent me a quote from a movie:
> > "Katherine Hepburne in African Queen":
> >
> > "Nature, Mr. Allnutt, is what we were put here on earth to rise
> > above..."
>
[snip]
I wrote:
> > This is not to say
> > that *a lot* of human behavior is not motivated by sex (But I'd
> > cast my vote for: (1) revenge, and (2) power, first, however; or
> > maybe: (1) power and (2) revenge -- with sex being #3, perhaps...
> > -- Nietzsche saw some things pretty clearly....)
[snip]
Yours in the continuing belief (hope...) that,
as the Yale professor (Preuss) whose class on
Hegel's _Phenomenology of Spirit_ I attended, began:
"A man eats, and a dog eats,
but the two do not thereby do the same thing."
\brad mccormick
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Everyman (woman, child) is a judge of the world.
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