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Beyond Good and Evil #2: Involuntary, Unconscious Memoir (I.6-I.16)

The Nietzsche Podcast

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The Plebeian Taste of Physics

Everything just has a will to exist and continue existing. That's how there are things. But really, that is simply an unwillingness to see the reality of becoming. This strikes an age with fundamentally plebeian tastes as fascinating, persuasive, and convincing. After all, it follows instinctively the canon of truth of eternally popular sensualism. What is clear? What is explained? Only what can be seen and felt? Every problem has to be pursued to that point. Conversely, the charm of the platonic way of thinking, which was a noble way of thinking,. consisted precisely and resistance to obvious sense evidence. Where man cannot find anything to see or grasp, he has no further business

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