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Friedrich Nietzsche‘s ”Beyond Good and Evil” (Part 1/2)

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The Prejudices of Philosophers

Nietzsche takes aim at dogmatists, Platonism and Christianity for their emphasis on things like the pure spirit or the good in itself. He argues that language can only go so far in actually conveying truth because it is limited by logic. And he asks why not a natural proclivity for untruth? For example, we are always going to be confronted withtruth about the nature of humanity.

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