Introduction Recently substack has seen some discussion on vitalism, whose essence can be encapsulated by the following quote: "The falseness of an opinion," said Nietzsche, "is not for us any objection to it.... The question is, how far an opinion is life-furthering, life-preserving...." When such pragmatism begins, Nihilism passes into the Vitalist stage, which may be defined as the elimination of truth as the criterion of human action, and the substitution of a new standard: the "life-giving," the "vital"; it is the final divorce of life from truth…”
I agree with the general argument of your essay--reaction versus authentic willing--and hear echoes of Julius Evola therein. I am unsure what value you see in Christianity; or rather, I would ask you to specify what 'sort' of Christianity you are referring to. I am a Traditionalist also, but from Evola, so I find Christianity instills weakness and submission (I observed this especially in women who will suffer every unimaginable horror or misery out of some misplaced understanding of 'God's will').
The problem is that Nietzsche is not a systematic or conceptual thinker. His work is aesthetic, mythical, poetic, and is to be absorbed as a spirit of 'ethos'. Unlike Kant, Hegel, and even Heidegger, you can't extract concepts from Nietzsche and singularly critique them. There is no 'categorical imperative' or 'Dasein' or 'dialectic'...Nietzsche is a force, a 'Zeitgeist'. This is why I seldom discuss his work with professional academics, because their 'academic' study of his writings is contrary to their nature.
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I agree with the general argument of your essay--reaction versus authentic willing--and hear echoes of Julius Evola therein. I am unsure what value you see in Christianity; or rather, I would ask you to specify what 'sort' of Christianity you are referring to. I am a Traditionalist also, but from Evola, so I find Christianity instills weakness and submission (I observed this especially in women who will suffer every unimaginable horror or misery out of some misplaced understanding of 'God's will').
The problem is that Nietzsche is not a systematic or conceptual thinker. His work is aesthetic, mythical, poetic, and is to be absorbed as a spirit of 'ethos'. Unlike Kant, Hegel, and even Heidegger, you can't extract concepts from Nietzsche and singularly critique them. There is no 'categorical imperative' or 'Dasein' or 'dialectic'...Nietzsche is a force, a 'Zeitgeist'. This is why I seldom discuss his work with professional academics, because their 'academic' study of his writings is contrary to their nature.
Anyway, I do appreciate you newsletter although I may not agree with many important topics featured therein.