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9227761 No.9227761 [Reply] [Original]

Hey /lit/

I just read the first chapter of Beyond Good and Evil.

All I can actually confidently say I can remember is when Nietzsche talks about thoughts, how language confuses philosophers because the sentence 'I thought' implies the thought is your own, when it is not. This tied into what he was describing earlier, when humans use falsities to help us make sense of the world, and that trying to learn what is true is not the best question for philosophers to ask(?).

The rest of it went over my head. I find when I read these kinds of things it takes reading twenty-odd pages in order to get 7 sentences that actually make sense and are interesting.

Is this normal? Am I too pleb to read philosophy?

>> No.9227767
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9227767

WHAT SHOULD I READ BEFORE MY DIARY???

>> No.9227780

>Is this normal?
On the Genealogy of Morality is better organized and easier to read for plebs, but if you plan to read a critic of Christianity without even glancing at the Bible, and a teacher of the Greeks without doing the same with the Greeks, you'll get what you pay for.

>> No.9227783

>>9227767
>WHAT SHOULD I READ BEFORE MY DIARY???
What did he mean by this?

>> No.9227787

>>9227783
START

>> No.9227790

>>9227787
HOLY KEEEEEEEEEKS DUUUUDE
HAPPY EASTER!

>> No.9227839

>>9227761
Yep, sounds like you are

>> No.9227849

>the sentence 'I thought' implies the thought is your own, when it is not

Isn't this pedantry? Of course thoughts are not always our original.

>> No.9227875

>>9227849
It is not
And he didn't mean that "thoughts are not always original", that's shallow and wrong in this case