
Beyond Good and Evil #4: The Esoteric (II.26 - II.37)
The Nietzsche Podcast
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Nietzsche's Theory of Language Shapes Thought
Nietzsche says language shapes thought, but it's a dangerous thought at the tempo of a gallop. He points out that we're embodied in a physical reality where we have external pressures or just simply conditions that collide with our physiology and interact with it. In China, for example, there is a line that roughly follows where the Great Wall is. And so what do you have in northern China and north of China?
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