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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82: Blaise Pascal’s Faithful Calculations
81: Michel de Montaigne - “What Do I Know?”
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80: Gilles Deleuze, pt. 2: Becoming-Active
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79: Gilles Deleuze, pt. 1: Against the Dialectic
Untimely Reflections #26: Andrei Georgescu (Artiexus) - Seedless Flowers & Materialist Theories of Creativity
78: Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic
77: Robert Pirsig’s Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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76: Nietzsche’s Apology
75: Socrates’ Apology
74: Three Metamorphoses of the Spirit (As Seen in the Life of Nietzsche)
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73: The Power to Forget
Wandering Above A Sea of Fog #2
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Beyond Good and Evil #14: The Essence of Life (IX.257 - IX.267)
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