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Nietzsche's Philosophical Ethnology, Raymond Geuss
My third and final point is that, as Nietzsche argues, self-knowledge itself may not be as important in all contexts as philosophers have made it out to be. Much more important is creative activity, the invention and production of something new, and this does not necessarily always require a high degree of self-knowledge; in fact it is often associated with a blindness to the self, to delusion about the world and to various forms of divine madness.

May 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM

willowMay 2, 2025

Nietzsche's Philosophical Ethnology, Raymond Geuss
Second, if you are interested, as philosophers have traditionally been, in self-knowledge, neither introspection nor dialectical conversation nor some combination of both are a via regia. Rather, what you should be looking for is locating yourself in your local context and the historically given patchwork of fatherlands and their associated tables of value, while maintaining cognitive distance to all these tables. The best way to do that is to look at your home with the eye of the foreign traveller. Herodotus (and then Herakleitos and Brecht) are better models than Socrates.

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