[Buddha-l] Nietzsche was a bachelor (was: Batchelor)

Dan Lusthaus vasubandhu at earthlink.net
Thu May 20 09:29:19 MDT 2010


Joanna,

> What's lacking in Nietzche [...] is any social
> structural analysis that recognises character as not only a
> function of one's will or intentions (of one's "morality") but as
> well of one's position in the political economy.


It's been awhile since you've actually read Nietzsche, hasn't it? As the old 
tv commercial used to say: "It's in there." He's not a marxist, of course, 
but class resentiments are integral to his analysis -- except he sees 
forces, such as those that breed resentiment, as more primary.

Dan 



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