[b]Friedrich Nietzsche
“Is it any wonder that we should finally learn from the Sphinx to ask questions, too?”[/b]
Who is it really that puts questions to us here?
The Sphinx of philosophy will fall shrieking before the counterquestion “Why truth?”
The problem of the value of truth came before us - or was it we who came before the problem?
We’ve been praising truth for nothing. Nihilism is here to stay.
How the “true” world finally became a fable of history of an error in sequence.
1.The true world; attainable for the sage, the pious, the virtuous one- he lives in it, he is it.
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The true world; unattainable for now, but promised for the sage, the pious, the virtuous one. ( For sinners who repent.)
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The true world; unattainable, indemonstrable, unpromisable, but the thought of it- a consolation, an obligation, an imperative.
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The true world; unattainable? At any rate, unattained. And as unattained, also unknown. Consequently, also not consoling, redeeming, or obligating: to what could somthing unknown obligate us?
[u]5. The true world- An idea which is no longer useful for anything, not even obligating- a useless idea, an idea become superfluous, consequently, a refuted idea; let us abolish it!
- The true world we have abolished: Which world remained? The apparent one perhaps? But no! With the true world we have abolished the apparent one as well![/u]
( A history of the devaluation of values.)
If the highest values- the true world- are unknown and in-demonstrable, they are also unknownable.
“Let us abolish it.” It is a useless idea: God is dead.
When the “true world”, the highest values sink into oblivion the “apparent” one ceases to exist qua apparent world as well.
What is left after the abolition of the true world, in the wake of the devaluation of values is an aimless becoming in which all meaningful distinctions between veridical and delusory disappear.
Aimless relativity is nihilism.
