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This is what I’m working on right now. A five-page essay on nietzsche.

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Among the many related concepts explored in “On Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense”, Nietzsche describes a human existence in which it is impossible to ever directly experience or understand what reality actually is. He bases this philosophy on the idea that because we are unable to remove ourselves from our world and see it from an objective viewpoint, we can never hope to perceive more than the stimuli that reach our senses. According to Nietzsche, it is merely the “nerve stimulus”(82), which is already once removed from the original source that is then transferred into an “image” (82) or thought, no more than a metaphor, and then into sound and finally words. These then become our understanding of our world. However, these several degrees of separation between the original “thing in itself” (82) and our understanding of that thing prevent us from truly grasping its truth. Keeping this aspect of Nietzsche’s philosophy in mind, an inescapable paradox reveals itself when it is recognized that Nietzsche cannot hope to effectively convey or discuss the actual truth or reality implied by his essay using human language. A discussion of just the diction used in the text of the essay, even in a translated version, provides evidence that language can never be used to effectively convey the exact truth that Nietzsche hopes to reveal. This paradox then turns back upon itself when it is realized that the fact that language fails Nietzsche not only undermines and weakens the validity of his idea of an inaccessible truth outside ourselves, but also provides the strongest evidence in support of it.

Yeah. that is one paragraph. The intro at that. But according to MSword, it is a full page. :) So… only four more like it to go. And btw, ignore my incorrect citations. Fuck figuring out which citation style he wants.

Yeah… you know I secretly love this shit, right?