Beyond Good and Evil #4: The Esoteric (II.26 - II.37)
The Nietzsche Podcast
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The Importance of Honesty
"Whenever anyone speaks without bitterness, quite innocently, of man has a belly with two requirements and a head with one," he writes. "No one lies as much as the indignant do." And so this is the old theme throughout Nietzsche's work: that we might compare this to the division between Plato and Thucydides. The moralist imposes a moral interpretation on reality and on mankind,. He deceives us. He misrepresents what reality is. WhereasThucydides attempts to portray the motivations and actions of the people involved.
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