PHL217H1 Lecture Notes - Friedrich Nietzsche, False Dilemma, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Whether the most essential truths can be shared. Different senses of what truth is, in one case, truth as a standard of knowledge, in another case, truth as a standard of value. In k, there seems to be a question of whether truth might interfere with truth of genuine value. Nietzsche-a different question about the value of truth. In so far as any philosophical views that have made into popular opinions, Nietzsche articulates the modern temperate and sensibility, and he interprets this in a very delightful and entertaining manner. But for the same reason, he is also the most misunderstood. N is in short, deliberately ironic, and paradoxical. The goal is not to simplify a complicated writer, but to complicate a seemingly simple writer. A basic paradox in on truth and lie in a nonmoral sense. Statement that truth is a lie, is paradoxical.