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Beyond Good and Evil

Why Theory

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The Importance of Knowing

It's pretty clear in the text that like there's something in philosophy and in science that Nietzsche finds deeply unsatisfying. It is at the level exactly of where Freud intervenes so I'm just going to read some choice here which is on page 16. We should free ourselves from the seduction of words, he writes. "I get a whole set of bold claims that are difficult perhaps impossible to establish"

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