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From: Thomas
Date: 16 May 2003
Time: 21:53:26
Quote: ("God is dead" meant that the period of people believing that God is the only means to perfection is dead.) Yes! Thatīs what I think N. meant to, but I dont think its that simple. Why does Zarathustra blush' when first seing the ugly one? And why does he later fall to the ground, like an axe had hit him? What is it that make him fall, his pity for the ugliest man! But he shruggs this old christian "habit", and stands up again. Why couldnt the ugliest man bear the thought of Gods look? Why did the ugliest man feel honoured when Zarathustra felt ashamed of him? The ugliest man has killed God and he feels life is meaningless therefore, there is nothing worth living for anymore. And this is what Z. becomes ashamed of.
Everyone who believes in God shows the ugliest man his sympahty, but thats last thing he want from people. Why??? Because, Christian believe God is always watching their good deeds! God is the witness that must be abolished. The eye looking down from the sky must ones and for all be forgotten.
"The God that saw everything, including the human, must die. Man cant endure the existence of such a witness" page 257
In a sense one could perhaps say the ugliest man is the transition from Monism to Atheism, and the burden that follows, the sorrow.
(This is my private interpretation, im studing philosophy at the university of Stockholm, I cant say its accurate since Im not considering myself a N. expert)
Anyone knows what N. means by " I love the great despicers" (In the end of the ugliest man)? why does he think that the man who loves himself the most, must also overcome his despice? Is it because selflove, egoism will always be contradictory to christian values?