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If Zarathustra is above Caesar, how do you explain the following:
“On Zarathustra’s recovery, there stands Caesar, inexorable, kind: the gulf between being-a-creator, kindness and wisdom is destroyed.”
[Nietzsche, Nachlass.]
And where does that quote, “Great men must be prevented”, come from?
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I disagree. I think the Christ-soul was Caesar’s clementia:
http://www.carotta.de/subseite/texte/jwc_e/vp.html
“Redeemer” sounds pretty slavish to me. Note that the Christ-souled Roman Caesar has mastered his goodness: he has the greatness of spirit (or intellect) requisite to be great-souled, to be clement: he understands that there have never been greater follies than with the pitiful, that nothing in the world has caused more suffering than the follies of the pitiful, and that a loving one should have an elevation which is above his pity (cf. TSZ, Of the Pitiful). The Christ-souled Roman Caesar makes people suffer - for the sake of the Superman! Note, by the way, that Nietzsche is not talking about a Caesar (a Julius Caesar) with the soul of Christ, but about a Roman Caesar (a Roman Emperor) with the soul of Christ. Julius Caesar was such a Christ-souled Roman Emperor. Zarathustra is, too.
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