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Nihilism

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Will to Truth and the Will to Power

Truth is the obvious goal of all inquiry. You can't just jettison it while continuing to inquire. If we're going to inquire at all, as the Enlightenment suggests, you must aim your inquiries at something. The name for that thing is truth. One of the problems is Nietzsche undermined the will to truth by seeing behind it the will to power. He was very influential in the 20th century suspicion towards the whole idea of disinterested inquiry.

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