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To: RocketMan who wrote (129271)	10/15/2001 7:28:42 AM
From: Oblomov	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 436258

As you mentioned previously, Nietzsche's philosophy could be used to support causes that Nietzsche himself would have hated. He never advanced the idea of the self as god. Thus Spake Zarathustra was meant primarily as a critique of Christianity, and the character Zarathustra was intended as an "Anti-Christ" - a founder of an "anti-religion" based on self-discipline instead of the religious fear of God. The Superman was someone who had conquered himself, not other people. Fire figured very prominently in Zoroastrianism - it is the giver and taker of life. Nietzsche was referring to Zoroaster when he wrote TSZ. Zarathustra was meant to be a latter-day Prometheus, bringing the fire of enlightenment to the benighted human race. Note that fire and other elements of Zoroastrianism still are an important part of the Persian New Year (Nowrooz) celebration. Nietzsche didn't write after he contracted syphillis. But his sister did sign his name to a few of her protofascist screeds. Nietzsche himself would have detested Naziism or any other mass movement. I'm not a Nietzschean, but I do have great respect for his philosophy.