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Noon As Liberation And Midpoint
- Noon symbolizes a high moment of self-knowledge and the midpoint between beast and overman.
- It marks liberation from long shadows of illusion and the possibility of further transformation.
Pity As A Life-Denying Force
- Nietzsche identifies pity as the final and most dangerous obstacle to his affirmative philosophy.
- Pity, he argues, undermines greatness and multiplies suffering by privileging comfort over life-affirming struggle.
Suffering Enables Happiness
- Pity focuses attention outward on imagined suffering and can lead to melancholy and diminished joy.
- The pursuit of eliminating suffering risks erasing the contrast that makes happiness possible.