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Brian Leiter on Nietzsche Myths

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The Myth of Nietzsche

In the last 20 or 30 years, postmodernists have claimed Nietzsche as their guiding philosopher. He's a skeptic about truth and knowledge; we can't know how things really are, he says. But his work shows that he was trained in classical philology: "a discipline with rigorous methods by which we can elicit certain kinds of knowledge"

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