Heidegger's Plea

"Here all sharing in thinking, clumsy and groping though it may be, is an essential help."

Mann's insight on the nature of evil

--"And yet: this moral fibre, surviving the hampering and disintegrating simplification, does it not result in its turn in a dangerous simplification, in a tendency to equate the world and the human soul, and thus to strengthen the hold of the evil, the forbidden, and the ethically impossible? And has not form two aspects? It is not moral and immoral at once: moral insofar as it is the expression and result of discipline, immoral--yes, actually hostile to morality--in that of its very essence it is indifferent to good and evil, and deliberately concerned to make the world stoop beneath its proud and undivided sphere?"

Death in Venice

Human Revelation

I think each person writes, speaks, and acts with a certain care. (not heideggarian) Even people who seem carefree, or worse--hampered by social anxiety--act because they have a deep care about how they will be received. People who are bent on exposing a psychological tendency, especially when they expose the tendency with gusto, either succumb to that same tendency themselves or are cautious of it and try desperately not to fall into it. Basically what I’m saying is that buried within the things people do and say is a deep expression of who they are--and we don’t often assess this expression well or even take notice of it. This is the revelation Arendt speaks of.

Me Vs. Philosophy, or Me Vs. Me?

Philosophy and I have come to an decisive point in our relationship.
The Dance Song has provoked in me a seemingly endless series of questions concerning the place and merit of philosophy, i.e. what it is and why wisdom is 'worth' my pursuit. He poses serious questions about the nature of truth and seriously questions the value of a life that is devoted to it.
For Nietzsche it is not as if truth lies outside of our grasp, as an object to be chased. Rather we create truth for ourselves. This is an enormous assertion. Much of The Will to Power is devoted to smashing the notion of truth. Principles of a new evaluation takes us through several philosophies that have proposed truth in some way.
Danger lurks in Nietzsche's writings. It is hard to imagine how radical this thought is, that we stand suspended over an infinite nothing. Nihilism knocks at the door. Nihilism is a positive phenomenon

Nietzsche appears to want to banish philosophy as it has hitherto been known. This comes out in the section 'of self overcoming', where he basically states that all philosophy has been an expression of the will to power, namely, the will to create or posit a value. It also emerges in Untimely Mediations, where he says ""If the modern human being were, in general, only courageous and decisive, if he were in even his hostility not just an inner being, he would banish philosophy."

He calls the will of the philosophers "the will to the conceivability of all being." They want to "create the world" before which they can kneel.

I am interested in the characterization of the philosopher's 'impulse' to 'render all being conceivable' that is presented here. Are philosophers tyrannical knowledge fiends who want to conceive the hell out of what we see in front of us? Nail everything down? Sometimes I get this impression, of myself and others who like to look outside them and wonder.

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