[lit-ideas] Re: Nietzsche and truth

On 2005/01/31, at 11:52, Eric Yost wrote:

> Aimlessly browsing the other night, I came across this passage, copied
> below as a belated contribution to the "Nietzsche and Truth" thread. 
> -EY


Interesting stuff. If you don't mind a comment from someone who hasn't 
read either Neitzsche or Kierkegaard for years, it seems to me that 
both exemplify thinkers torn between the desire for absolute faith and 
the recognition that the world provides no grounds for such faith. To 
me, brought up a Lutheran, this is a familiar paradox.

One possible resolution is the radical separation of faith and reason 
we see in Christian and Muslim fundamentalists. Innocuous enough when 
faith is segregated in a separate "religious" sphere of life, it 
becomes immensely dangerous when faith is totalitarian, demands control 
of every aspect of life, and legitimates the slaughter of the 
unbeliever as a holy act.

Another possible resolution is to abandon faith for hope, the move 
exemplified by Richard Rorty, in, for example, _Philosophy and Social 
Hope_.

Cheers,

John

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