Kneejerk diagnoses do not credit either their objects or their messengers. If you think about what I initially proposed, it is almost transparent that it is a viable thesis given the lifetime importance he placed on revaluation and the brick wall of an eventual acceptance of Abba if not of Christianity. Such a conundrum is more potent than any physical cause IMO. In reference to Sister Elizabeth the martial stuff persists. Next to the Nietzsche House in Sils-Maria there is a huge bronze eagle that evokes everything N hated about Germany. Understanding is most elusive. Cheers, S
*ShortFormContent at Blogger* <http://shortformcontent.blogspot.com/> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Gary Moore <gottlos752...@yahoo.com>wrote: > Dear sir,****** > The syphilis is merely hear-say from incompetent reporters with no fact > based diagnosis whatsoever. Syphilis does not have to result in personality > disorder, but does have specific physical symptoms which were not reported > of him by any competent physician qualified to do. It was a mere fad, a > myth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that all brilliant men had > syphilis and derived their genius from the disease. This is nonsense. ¶*** > * > Nietzsche within his personal and scholastic context was the same bright > person in 1867 as he was before his collapse in Turin in 1889 and > supposedly had periods of perfect clarity after that. He did have some > distinct symptoms of mental deterioration of some sort but which is common > to a number of so-called mental disorders. ¶**** > But some of the symptoms were defense mechanisms which he could have > developed whether mad of sane since he was in the care of his thoroughly > exploitative sister who deliberately enlarged the story of his madness to > promote his ‘mad genius myth’ which made his books bestsellers for her > which they were not when he was sane and motivated her to be the first to > edit a manuscript for the mythical WILL TO POWER which real scholars > re-edited > for the official complete works around 1911.¶**** > The sister was an ardent Nazi who petitioned Hitler repeatedly to visit > the Nietzsche archive in Weimar when he was in power, and which he visited > only once for a few seconds, long enough for her to get a photograph of him > next to Nietzsche ‘mad’ bust with the downturned face and overgrown > mustache. The ‘mad genius” Hitler was suppose to have had syphilis too > along with Napoleon, Goethe, Henry VIII and whoever else you want.¶**** > Thomas Mann has him picking up his syphilis in a brothel when he first > went to the university. Kaufmann speculates that he served as an medical > orderly for wounded soldiers in the Franco-Prussian War. Nietzsche > himself may have given slight credence to the first incident. I do not know > where Kaufmann got his information. ¶ > I certainly do not know everything about his insanity. Kaufmann did come > up with some graphic facts that support he really was insane. But one > should make rational, fact based statements about it rather than eluding to > the myth of syphilis making one a genius – which I know you did not state > it so, but it was the gossip of the time.¶ > Gary C. Moore > > > *From:* Harley Myler <h.my...@myler.org> > *To:* Gary Moore <gottlos752...@yahoo.com> > *Sent:* Monday, April 30, 2012 7:28 AM > *Subject:* Re: [peirce-l] PEIRCE QUOTATION FROM JOHN DEELY LOCATION, now > Nietzsche > > > On Apr 30, 2012, at 2:08 AM, Gary Moore wrote: > > You mention Nietzsche. My theory is that he went mad in part because his > own values and those he excoriated left him unable to complete revaluation > of values of which Antichrist was the first of five intended works. > > > I may have come into this late, but he went mad because he had syphilis. > If you were treated with mercury vapors/injections (standard practice at > the time), you would go as mad as a hatter as well. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the PEIRCE-L > listserv. To remove yourself from this list, send a message to > lists...@listserv.iupui.edu with the line "SIGNOFF PEIRCE-L" in the body > of the message. To post a message to the list, send it to > PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the PEIRCE-L listserv. To remove yourself from this list, send a message to lists...@listserv.iupui.edu with the line "SIGNOFF PEIRCE-L" in the body of the message. To post a message to the list, send it to PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
