Dec. 8th, 2008

Nietzsche 1

Dec. 8th, 2008 10:49 am
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Am studying Nietzsche's Beyond Good And Evil in preparation for an exam tomorrow. The book is far harder to understand than I was expecting. A major problem is that Nietzsche usually speaks in pronouncements rather than giving examples or making arguments, and he's spare on analogies as well. And he'll use hotly contested terms - "Platonism," "Christianity," "democracy" - as if what they represent goes without saying (so he doesn't say it) or, when he does say it, as if what they represent is a monolith.

wild ambivalences and corresponding subtleties )
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Nietzsche 2

Dec. 8th, 2008 06:17 pm
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MARK:
however i think nietzsche's (not-entirely formulated) answer is that you can distinguish between "stuff that formally gets acknowledged as being of the Type of Truth; and stuff that's, y'know, TRUE"

so what's at issue is less his criterion of truth (which he apparently thinks will take care of itself), more - to borrow from steve colbert - his criterion of truthiness


Well, this is what I would want Nietzsche to believe, that truth takes care of itself, people come up with the criteria they need as they go along (which is to say that philosophy has nothing interesting to say about truth), but I'm not sure it is what he believes.

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