Nietzche

Nietzche

Read pg 203 – 213 Thursday November 13th 3 pages Topic – describe/explain Nietzsche’s “value creating” God=universal values (good and evil) God is dead. There is no truth written in stone Historically there are truths but there is no universal truth, all we have is subjective truths (based on the individual and created by the individual) Human beings create we are creators and we create truths MAIN POINT Stress the main point ^ since Rejects platos views We create truths about good and evil Thousands of examples of good and bad and how we should treat each other created by humans Nietzsche wants to destroy your perspective that there is a universal truth Nietzsche wants to tell u that the creative truths are forgotten in time so they end up being taken as gods truth What goes hand and hand with universal truth is the idea that we fins truth Plato=find truth Nietzsche=create truth What gets forgotten is that fact that is was created, we take the truth to be eternal objective and universal Will to truth is our capacity and our desire to create 2ndparagraph last line page 9- Plato wanted truth and certainty believe Nietzsche – why not want untruth and uncertainty Hes shaking it up and rattling plato The point is it is pointless to look for absolute truths as it is to look for absolute untruths Any absolute gets wiped out according to Nietzsche Page 10 2nd line“such origins are impossible........” he is saying that this is your prejudice that you think that there is a thing in itself (truth= thing in itself, god = thing in itself) Page 11 last line before # 4. Page 12 talking about false judgement. The core of rationalism believes in a prior knowledge ( innate and before experience knowledge) Nietzsche bashes those who believe that knowledge is a posterori (knowledge gained after experience...

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