April 15, 2005
As we have seen in chapter 4 ('The origin of the Four Critieria') of his Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle Pierre Klossowski's psychoanalytic interpretation of Nietzsche holds that Nietzsche's questioning of Western culture is an aspect of the way he interrogated himself. Klossowski says that this questioning is done in terms of health and morbidity, which are seen by Nietzsche as differences of degree.
Klossowski then spots a problem:
"Nietzsche himself, in wanting to prove that traditional [Christian ]morality is the negation of life, continues to hestitate on the question of what constitutes the power and impotence of living ---thus he is unable to decide for himself what exactly is harmful."
Personally I thought that what is harmful is what stunts rather than enhances life.
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