[Hardy-l] Hardy and Nietzsche...

[Rosemarie Morgan]

This is all fascinating stuff. It looks as if there's room for a most 
original essay on TH, Cramb and maybe Hyndeman (sp?) and related 
thinkers  -- and also (perhaps) the Napoleon issue.

Have you any idea how TH *actually* stands on the issue of capital 
punishment? (seems to me ambivalent --surprise surprise. Speaking as 
magistrate being one thing; speaking as a human-being another : how 
slippery can you get?)  This is one area of "mercy" where Nietzsche seems 
to have a point in so far as presidents and governors possessing the power 
of reprieve & commutation of sentence  (notably the death sentence) 
ostensibly exercise an "ethical" act of mercy which is in reality 
is  purely political and self-serving.  TH must have thought about this, in 
the heady age of *Punch,* (anti-capital punishment) --and in reading 
Kant  (the "moral ought"etc) and certainly Gide.

Kevin  (and anyone) -- can you shed further light on any of this?

Best
Rosemarie (enslaved only to three cats)
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>A friend who recently published on Nietzsche commented that, "If by
>lovingkindness you mean something like "meekness", then you're right
>that that is an element of slave morality for N.  But you're also
>right that the Ubermensch may display mercy, etc but his mercy will
>always be categorically different from what we think of as mercy, i.e.
>as slave morality."
>
>Enslaved at a desk in gloomy, rainy England,
>Kevin T.
>
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