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Beyond Good and Evil #3: One Ruling Thought (I.17 - II.25)

The Nietzsche Podcast

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Nietzsche's Argument for Adivism

Nietzsche says philosophy is an adivism. of adivism so we have a another comparison that nicha is made or another metaphor he's used to describe the activity of philosophizing called "mystical inspiration" So often philosophers believe what they're doing is transcending human nature as animals and making ourselves into something which is set apart from all of the animal kingdom by bringing our rational intellect to bear against the operation and activity of our impulses we become something more Nietzsche is saying philosophy is anAdivism, it's actually a regression to nature a retreat into an earlier mode of being or existence a resurgence a sudden resurgence.

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