Nietzsche and Domestic & World Peace

Sunday, April the 13th, 2008
"The creation of freedom for oneself" needs "a sacred 'No' even to duty".(p.27, Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Kaufmann trans., "Thus Soke Zarathustra --- A Book for None and All", 1954, New York, USA) As Nietsche put it: "He once loved 'thou shalt' as most sacred, but that freedom from his love may become his prey:"(p.27, ibid.) I once loved "thou shalt", but the love should become my prey to get freed. However, that is only a denial. "For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world."(p.27, ibid.) The denial itself must be, in turn, preyed to get oneself to be creative. The creation might bring you your own virtues. The virtues, however, ought to be put aside, to bring peace onto the world. "And even if one has all the virtues, there is one further thing one must know: to send even the virtues to sleep at the right time."(p.28, ibid.) "Peace with God and the neighbor: that is what good sleep demands. And peace even with the neighbor's devil --- else he will haunt you at night."(p.29, ibid.) Peace of this kind is necessary not only in personal affairs but also in the world. Any conflict and dispute could never be conquared without "good sleep."