MB> [and] thus live we who will... Carry on as you like, roaring with  
 MB> overweening pleasure and malice- or dive again...  
 MB> [end quote] 
 MB>  
 MB> Can anyone tell me _why_ the above is NOT a classic Homeric metaphor? 
 What is a classic Homeric metaphor Mark? I see a huge difference 
between Neitzsche & Homer in that the latter saw the motives of 
men clearly, but did not wonder *why* the motives were what they 
obviously were, whereas Friedrich probes the culture and times to 
try to see *why* men do as they do. 
 
In that wondering, he suggested to me that the *will* is usually 
a poorly understood instrument, and that the tide of the times is 
all most folks used to delineate theirs.  As Aristotle said, most 
men were slaves to passion.  The difference between most men and 
the Ubermench is not a lack of passion, but the *harnessing* of 
that power to some well thought out end. 
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