Re: Thoughts on Kevin's announcement [MOT]

2010-05-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
MOT: Ministry of Transport / Miles of Topic / Mad, 'Orrible Twisted; your choice. On 12/05/2010 23:16, Andre Garzia wrote: Believe me, I can't understand Nietzsche even in Portuguese... and I had classes about him at the university... My son had a Nietzsche patch about a year ago, and all

Re: Thoughts on Kevin's announcement [MOT]

2010-05-12 Thread René Micout
This argument is used by the enemies of Nietzsche's thought. All these stupid things taken from La volonté de puissance book that Nietzsche ever wrote, but was built by his sister who was anti-Semitic (and fan of Hitler) (with whom she strongly disagreed) after the death of his brother. It is

Re: Thoughts on Kevin's announcement [MOT]

2010-05-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
René Micout wrote: This argument is used by the enemies of Nietzsche's thought. All these stupid things taken from La volonté de puissance book that Nietzsche ever wrote, but was built by his sister who was anti-Semitic (and fan of Hitler) (with whom she strongly disagreed) after the death

Re: Thoughts on Kevin's announcement [MOT]

2010-05-12 Thread René Micout
I am so sorry to drift on our computer's subjects, it's my fault, I made a citation about which I do not think there would be these returns back. I also know from experience that the name of Nietzsche can be controversial. It is a paradox because it is a philosopher of life who fights nihilism

Re: Thoughts on Kevin's announcement [MOT]

2010-05-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 12/05/2010 23:53, René Micout wrote: This argument is used by the enemies of Nietzsche's thought. All these stupid things taken from La volonté de puissance book that Nietzsche ever wrote, but was built by his sister who was anti-Semitic (and fan of Hitler) (with whom she strongly

Re: Thoughts on Kevin's announcement [MOT]

2010-05-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 13/05/2010 00:10, René Micout wrote: I am so sorry to drift on our computer's subjects, it's my fault, I made a citation about which I do not think there would be these returns back. I also know from experience that the name of Nietzsche can be controversial. It is a paradox because it is

Re: Thoughts on Kevin's announcement [MOT]

2010-05-12 Thread Dave Cragg
Bringing things back on topic (well sort of)... Nietzsche also wrote something called (in English) The Gay Science. This is something of which a certain person on this list is sure to endorse, and illustrates Nietzsche's great foresight or aforementioned person's retrospective hindsight with

Re: Thoughts on Kevin's announcement [MOT]

2010-05-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 13/05/2010 00:25, Dave Cragg wrote: Bringing things back on topic (well sort of)... Nietzsche also wrote something called (in English) To come out of the closet, or to stay shut in; that is the question. The Gay Science. Oh dear! Polysemanticism and the perils of translation. There

Re: Thoughts on Kevin's announcement [MOT]

2010-05-12 Thread René Micout
If Hitler had read Nietzsche I do not think it is claimed. It is very violent with anti-Semitic, also the violence. I think he read the wrong book concocted by his sister in which sentences are truncated and modified to suggest to Hitler that his brother shared his ideas. read about it:

Re: Thoughts on Kevin's announcement [MOT]

2010-05-12 Thread René Micout
Name ! Name ! Des noms ! Des noms ! ;-) Le 12 mai 2010 à 23:25, Dave Cragg a écrit : Bringing things back on topic (well sort of)... Nietzsche also wrote something called (in English) The Gay Science. This is something of which a certain person on this list is sure to endorse, and

Re: Thoughts on Kevin's announcement [MOT]

2010-05-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond Mathewson wrote: At my school there was a chap called 'Shufflebotham' (pronounced in 'that' way) who was an extremely good country runner; although he was often beaten by the chaplain's son; 'Alcock'. I kid you not! Sooner rather than later our good wag, J. Landman G. will quip one

Re: Thoughts on Kevin's announcement [MOT]

2010-05-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Die fröhliche Wissenschaft: The Gay Science was about poetry and the idea of power. It has also been translated as The Joyous Wisdom (which avoids any latter-day ambiguity). Personally I would go for an entirely literal translation of 'fröhliche'; frolicsome nothing either wrong or ambig.

Re: Thoughts on Kevin's announcement [MOT]

2010-05-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Wednesday, May 12, 2010, 3:00:13 PM, you wrote: Hard to top those, but...I just got a new phone line and the caller ID info is showing up as Gay Jacqueline. I think I need to change that. ...toujours gai, archy... -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net