PHIL 367 Lecture Notes - Tyrant, Arthur Schopenhauer, Tuning Fork
13 Apr 2012
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Idols = deceptive tendencies like the socratic tendencies. The hammer is the instrument that destroys, that deconstructs, and is at the same time the tuning fork for the new music, the new work of art that nietzsche wants to create. What the has in mind is are-evaluation of all values. This question mark is so big and so black that it casts a shadow on the man who casts it down. Criticizes schopenhauer"s will for its dependence on the kantian thing-in-itself, on the neumenal realm. Schopenhauer holds onto the metaphysical pretense of a sundered existence. He criticizes the worship of reason, the worship of a true world behind the real one, Christian morality, liberalism, utilitarianism, and the contemporary ideal of science. The notion that this opposition between the true and apparent world is a lie that we are condemned. All conceptualization is a lie, but a necessary lie. But they are necessary lies for evolutionary reasons.
