Today we examine an 1875 Fragment, entitled "Science and Wisdom in Battle". Not only does this fragment contain one of my favorite quotations of Nietzsche's, it represents his continual grappling with the meaning of Ancient Greek culture. In particular, we discuss the importance of "relations of tension" in Nietzsche's earlier work: art versus science, culture versus the state, history versus forgetting, and of course, science and wisdom. Both are drives to knowledge, and the tension between them created philosophy in the tragic age of the Hellenes. Science is characterized by logical, objective, specialized knowledge, whereas Wisdom is defined by Nietzsche as a tendency for illogical generalization, leaping to one's ultimate goal, and an artistic desire to reflect the world in one's own mirror.
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93: The Idle Hours of a Psychologist
92: The Four Great Errors
Q&A #9
Untimely Reflections #31: Quinn Williams - On Deleuze, and Methods of Interpretation
91: Carl Jung - Nietzsche on the Couch
90: Carl Jung - Archetypes & The Collective Unconscious
Untimely Reflections #30: Weltgeist - Aesthetics of Schopenhauer & Nietzsche
Untimely Reflections #29: Daniel Tutt - Boxing with Nietzsche
Untimely Reflections #28: Stephen Hicks - Is Nietzsche a Postmodernist?
89: Sigmund Freud - Sublimations, Dreams & Repressions
88: René Girard - The Case for the Crucified
86: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks pt 2 - Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Democritus
85: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks, pt. 1 - Thales, Anaximander, Heraclitus
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84: Eckermann’s Conversations with Goethe
83: Baruch Spinoza’s Geometric Faith
ANNOUNCEMENT.
82: Blaise Pascal’s Faithful Calculations
81: Michel de Montaigne - “What Do I Know?”
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