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willowMar 18, 2025
i’m so over making evaluations and interpretations and really just cognition in general
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raymond geuss, who needs a world view, games and proverbs, pg 48. So, Achilles had models for aspiration, and not even for him does it all come absolutely “naturally.” This is true despite Nietzsche’s fantasies (or, to put it more sympathetically, “philosophical constructions”) in Zur Genealogie der Moral, about an aboriginal groups of “Masters” who simply didn’t think about themselves at all or mould themselves into a shape imposed by reflection at all, who were not even, in any interesting sense “subjects,” but were, as it were, sheer act, all verb. This, however, is not a realistic description of a way of life that is at all cognitively accessible to us, no matter how far back we reach in the written record. It is, if anything, even less practically accessible to us.