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willowMay 2, 2025
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.