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Originally Posted by demonrail666
But you're right, he doesn't offer a viable world-view.
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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
philosophy is not about finding a viable world-view. it is about dissecting meaning, reality, and consciousness
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i was about to say (i'll say it anyway), thank fuck nietzsche wasn't a theologian in disguise, pretending to know the meaning of the universe, the place of the stars and the mechanics of the afterlife, like so many "philosophers" before him-- plato, kant, hegel, etc.
the man stuck to his subject, which was essentially that of human psychology and morality. and he did a kickass job of it.
he wasn't trying to solve every problem nor have a prescription for everything. beyond good an evil is, in fact, a call to future philosophers to create new values-- he didn't claim to have them ready-made.