On Truth and Untruth Selected Writings

Name: On Truth and Untruth Selected Writings
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ISBN: 9780061990465

ISBN-10: 0061990469

ISBN-13: 9780061990465

Edition: 2010

Authors: Friedrich Nietzsche

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Nietzsche's celebrated essay, in which he argues that "truth" is an illusion. Those ideas commonly agreed to be truths, according to Nietzsche, are mere beliefs and arbitrary constructions of human thought. From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: "Scholars regard Nietzsche's 1873 unpublished essay, On Truth and Lies [the full title is "On Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense"] as a keystone in his thought. In this essay, Nietzsche rejects the idea of universal constants, and claims that what we call "truth" is only "a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms." His view at this time is that arbitrariness prevails within human experience: concepts originate via the…

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List price: $10.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/9/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 4.50" wide x 7.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English