Beyond good and evil frederick5/28/2023 ![]() What does Europe owe to the Jews? Many things both good and bad, and one thing above all, at once the best and the worst: the grand moral style, the horror and the majesty of everlasting demands, everlasting meanings, the whole sublime romanticism of moral questions… He’s not as antisemitic as you might think him. ![]() ![]() It’s fairly certain that in the 21 st century most of us think this way… Little by little I came to understand what every great philosophy to date has been: the personal confession of its author, a kind of unintended and unwitting memoir. Admitting untruth as a condition of life: that means to resist familiar values in a dangerous way and a philosophy that dares this has already placed itself beyond good and evil. Man could not live without accepting logical fictions, without measuring reality by the purely invented world of the unconditional (…) that to give up false judgements would be to give up life, to deny life. ![]() I read this book with a pencil in hand, and so I underlined many of the passages that I found intriguing. I decided in this particular case not to do a proper review. This was the first book of Nietzsche’s that I’ve ever read, although I have heard lots of him – and I think I also read some short extracts from Thus Spake Zarathustra. ![]()
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