Nietzsche's revaluation failed but at least he cared about values

In his revised edition of Nietzsche The Man and His PhilosophyR. J. Hollingdale concludes that Nietzsche actually completedhis revaluation of values with The AntichristThis aptly contradicts the usual narrative that Nietzscheintended four works in addition to The Antichristto complete his grand objectiveI highly respect Hollingdale and find his reasoning persuasive
But my own approach to philosophy is based not onan effort to comprehend what he or she intended or meantbut to discern what relevance a text has nowand accept all of the fallibility that attaches to this methodIt is not that I do not want to feel I know NietszcheI would not have gone to Sils-Maria and wandered around as he didhad I not wished to imbibeBut I am settled in my sense of Nietzscheas I understand himfallibleinaccuratebut hardly irrelevant
The Antichrist is (to me)a confession of Jesusof a seemingly unreachable idealof values we cannot embracevalues of peace and love and nonviolenceNeitzsche skewered Christianity properly as rejecting this JesusHe merely says he is impossibleand goes back to hoary values that he never did revalue
I profess to be a revaluerThat would seem quite a reach were the whole thing not so simpleand accessible
I think the values of Jesus shorn of creeds and religionare pragmatic provable and ontologicalthey make for transcendence within immanenceThey entered my mind after we taught the Gospel of Mark in song (I had written this)to a whole lot of kids (pre-teens, teens)They are tolerance democracy (in the sense of universal rights)helpfulness and non-idolatry
Nietzsche comes into this because he cared aboutvalues and because his values were deficient to advancehistory though they were not half bad at creating the secular stagewe are in today The values I name above are sufficientand the task is to show how they workand why philosophy errs when it does not understand that history is made by the simple willing of values by human beings
This is why the characteristics and virtues that pass for values post-Aristotleare as the Bard understooda scutcheonand why the ignored values of Jesusadd up to a doableway of living

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