Sunday, October 14, 2007
Nietzsche=Socrates
Sometimes, Nietzsche uses reasoning such as "good=noble=powerful=beautiful=happy=beloved of God" (page 34). This is the same type of reasoning that Socrates would use with his students, by agreeing on one point and from there concluding that if A is true, then B must also be true, along with C.
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I commented on Nietzsche's use of equations too. I didn't really think about how this connected with Socrates though. What is interesting to me is how the equation seems to be valid, but doesn't really make sense. Could some of Socrates' assumptions been false as well?
This made me think of Socrates as well. Socrates in order to accept the beliefs of others first made his teachers justify their assumption, and then, and only then would Socrates give his teacher's conclusions any clout.
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