EMAIL<\/a> | SYLLABUS<\/a> | POLICIES<\/a> | QUESTIONS<\/a> | PRESENTATIONS<\/a> | JOURNALS<\/a> | PAPER<\/a> | FINAL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Assigned: Friedrich Nietzsche. \u201cOn Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense\u201d (764-74 in Leitch, Vincent B. and William E. Cain, eds. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.<\/em> 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 2010. ISBN 978-0-393-93292-8.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1. On 764-65, what complexities of attitude does Nietzsche convey about the capacity of human intellect and the claims often made on its behalf? What role does his analysis of \u201cdissimulation\u201d play in his exploration at this early point in the essay?, and why is what he calls the \u201cimpulse to truth\u201d little short of a miracle?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. On 765 bottom-766, Nietzsche invokes the social contract as the way in which humans put an end to what Thomas Hobbes called in Leviathan<\/em> \u201cthe war of all against all\u201d (bellum omnium contra omnes<\/em>). The social contract, says Nietzsche, gave rise to the binary or paired opposing concepts \u201ctruth\/lie.\u201d What does he immediately thereafter imply about the separateness and stability of the terms in that paired opposition? What is \u201ctruth\u201d in the context of his remarks about the social contract?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. On 766-77, how, according to Nietzsche, does language serve the sort of \u201cforgetfulness\u201d that fosters pleasant illusions instead of truth? How does it falsify the world around us, letting us assert that we know things when we don\u2019t? Why might, say, a noun (a substantive, as it\u2019s called) harbor a lie? Why is the term \u201cmetaphor\u201d important at this point in the essay?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. On 767-68, furthering his critique of the relationship between words and the world, Nietzsche aims a broadside against concepts. According to him, how do concepts arise, and what societal purpose does the ability to create them serve?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. On 768-69, what provisional definition of \u201ctruth\u201d does Nietzsche offer following from his argument about how concepts are formed, and what conclusions does he draw about the value of what we call \u201ctruth\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. On 769 bottom-770, according to Nietzsche, if human beings were momentarily to grasp themselves as \u201cartistically creative subject{s},\u201d what would at once happen to their self-consciousness, to their sense that they understand themselves and the world in which they live and perceive? Moreover, Nietzsche writes that \u201cbetween two absolutely different spheres, such as subject and object are, there is no causality, no correctness, no expression, but at most an aesthetic<\/em> way of relating\u201d (770). What is he admitting here regarding our chances of achieving genuine insight into the relationship between self and world, self and other?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7. On 770-71, what does Nietzsche suggest about so-called \u201claws of nature\u201d? Why do we think we can articulate and manipulate such alleged laws of nature? What sham does he suggest is always involved in formulating them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8. On 771-72, how does Nietzsche link the pursuit of scientific knowledge to what he has written about the formation of concepts? How is science, in its way, just as prone to the sway of illusions as Nietzsche has already said language is?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9. On 771 bottom-773, from what impulse, according to Nietzsche, does art spring? What does he say about the \u201cman of intuition\u201d \u2013 about his language, his role in culture and history, his ability or inability to cope with suffering?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 10. On 773-74, how does Nietzsche\u2019s treatment of the \u201cman of reason,\u201d and especially the final mention of the \u201cstoic who has learned from experience\u201d impact what he has written about the \u201cman of intuition\u2019s\u201d accomplishment? What seems to have been the point of comparing these two types or styles of humanity as Nietzsche has done here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n 11. What do you think Nietzsche has achieved in this essay? That is, what has happened to the binary opposition between \u201ctruth\u201d and \u201clying\u201d with which the author began the essay, now that Nietzsche has examined it in a \u201cnon-moral\u201d sense? (general question)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE QUESTIONS FOR E256 LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISMCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY, FALL 2012 Assigned: Friedrich Nietzsche. \u201cOn Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense\u201d (764-74 in Leitch, Vincent B. and William E. Cain, eds. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 2010. 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