@15:05 He says that Nietzsche sees Necessity as a metaphysical entity. This is a misreading, unless the German differs from my English translation: "I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who makes things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer." He refers to "that which is necessary", not the abstraction of Necessity. A quibble, but I think a significant one.
I have to agree with the importance of this quibble, as this finer point is rather fundamental in Prof. May's assertion. The abstraction of Necessity is that which detracts from it and thus taking away from that which Nietzsche called for through "joie de vivre." In other words, the abstraction of Necessity as a metaphysical entity is a perversion of necessity as a process, and in its place creating Necessity; a prerequisite to be fulfilled to some end. Love in process, and its necessity is where joie de vivre lies, in that each mistake made has to it an inexplicable beauty! It is not that we are to love the whole and may hate some of its parts, but that we hate the proverbial hol-e (holy) and love the sum of its parts! The realization that God may in fact be dead, but man can create conceptual reality through words! That amor fati can mean that one can learn to love that which he may think is evil, and embrace it as necessity, and that that might one day be his instinct. This is Übermensch!!
I'm trying to find his references to Nietzsche in particular the one at 20:00 to Beyond Good and Evil. I can't find that one and a few others. If someone has the exact aphorism that would be very helpful!
