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Friedrich Nietzsche‘s ”Beyond Good and Evil” (Part 1/2)

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The Untruth of Life

In the history of philosophy, metaphysicians and other philosophers have just sidestep the issue by saying that the will to truth is bestowed upon us by God or it emerges from according to Kant. And this distinction between good and evil has been very operational in justifying the route certain philosophies have been on. Nietzsche proposes a radical alternative: Untruth as a condition of life instead of truth as a conditionof life.

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