Timeline for What does Nietzsche mean in this quote from The Gay Science?
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| Jun 19, 2023 at 14:22 | comment | added | Rushi | Yes there is always this problem with Nietzsche — with what 'valence' to hear him. He speaks in such a poetic, hyperbolic, wild manner that when you 'tame' him to a 'reasonable' frame he's going to sound v different from the original. More importantly alternate tamed conceptualized versions may wildly differ. Eg Here (comments) is a recent case where the famous God is dead statement is read in irreconcilably differing 'valences'. | |
| Jun 19, 2023 at 13:38 | comment | added | Chris Degnen | @Rusi In support of my answer : quoting WTP 552 "The "welfare of the individual" is just as fanciful as the "welfare of the species": the first is not sacrificed to the last; seen from afar, the species is just as fluid as the individual." | |
| Jun 19, 2023 at 12:46 | comment | added | Rushi | @ScottRowe There is that side. There's also the opposite — species is everything — suggests that Nietzsche understood, 100 years before the Matrix and AGI that individual autonomy/rationality ultimately individuality itself, is a chimera | |
| Jun 19, 2023 at 10:18 | comment | added | Scott Rowe | I interpreted the quote to mean that full realization of truth requires going beyond what anyone has done with reasoning. Beyond reasoning, one sees that an individual existence is of no consequence. Similar to Existentialism, but further. | |
| Jun 19, 2023 at 8:03 | history | answered | Chris Degnen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |