22 April 2009

3 levels of absurdities in Nietzsche

I.
1) The objectivity of truth or that of health is vehemently denied. The truths of each body - whether a culture, an individual or a genre - is localized and given a legitimate sphere, where the tyranny of their specific perspective has the sole right.
2) It is still maintained, in apparent contradiction to the above, that there some healthier, more truthful bodies in comparison to others. The passions, the sufferings, the desires, the needs, the joy and happiness of these nobler entities must be preferred - since they have a greater purpose to them - to that of the lower beings.
3) However, an unequivocal rule is denied, which gives one access to a method by which one can discern which body is healthier or stronger than some other bodies. The knowledge of the criterion of what counts as healthy is known only by those who possess this health! It is not accessible to everyone. This is the tragedy of the healthy ones!

II. This movement from 1) to 3) is that of the 'objectivity' to 'subjectivity'. But not in the Hegelian sense, where the movement gains momentum in this very movement. It is rather the movement from 'will to truth' to 'will to power.'

III. But at the same time, this movement is perhaps the closest one gets to having a genuine sense of objectivity. Or the closest approximation that the motion of becoming can have to that of being, as Nietzsche puts it somewhere. For, even the noblest one's claim to his health, in the end, might be another form of delusion and dogmatism. A cave which hides another cave within its abyss. The spectre of Hegel in Nietzsche.

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