[kj] OT: Competition?

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

But jut 'cuz he says it's a saying from the militay school doesn't mean 
he also doesn't think it shouldn't be applied generally. Many people, or 
example, quote Sun Tzu for life philosophy-type mantras that have 
nothing to do with their being a general on a battlefield. Also, Carl 
Von Clausewitz wrote, "from the military school," the famous saying, 
"War is politics conducted by other means." (from his _Principals of War_)

But it's debates like this, about what he REALLY meant, that make 
Nietzsche who he is -- someone people still try to uncover what he 
REALLY meant by such and such. Unlike philosophers like Bertrand 
Russell, who wrote in such transparent, unambiguous language that they 
just stated, explicirtly, what they really meant.

Argue me, dammit, argue me!!!  :)  Neitzsche would love people doing 
that over his stuff

-Oliver

Brendan wrote:

> Nietzsche's quote, from memory, is prefixed with: "From the military school:"

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> So it's not meant to be a truism about life. And yeah, I agree, he's

> hugely contradictory at times, annoyingly so for someone who wrote so well

> at his best. 

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