Description: Further DetailsTitle: On Truth and UntruthCondition: NewSubtitle: Selected WritingsISBN-10: 0061990469EAN: 9780061990465ISBN: 9780061990465Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern ClassicsFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 12/01/2010Description: This is Nietzsche's celebrated essay, in which he argues that truth is an illusion. Those ideas commonly agreed to be truths, according to Nietzsche, are mere beliefs and arbitrary constructions of human thought. From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Scholars regard Nietzsche's 1873 unpublished essay, "On Truth and Lies" [the full title is "On Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense"] as a keystone in his thought. In this essay, Nietzsche rejects the idea of universal constants, and claims that what we call truth is only a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms. His view at this time is that arbitrariness prevails within human experience: concepts originate via the transformation of nerve stimuli into images, and truth is nothing more than the invention of fixed conventions for practical purposes, especially those of repose, security and consistency. Viewing human existence from a great distance, Nietzsche further notes that there was an eternity before human beings came into existence, and believes that after humanity dies out, nothing significant will have changed in the great scheme of things.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 181mmItem Length: 114mmItem Width: 11mmItem Weight: 111gAuthor: Friedrich NietzscheBook Series: Harper Perennial Modern ThoughtGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2010 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: On Truth and Untruth
Title: On Truth and Untruth
Subtitle: Selected Writings
ISBN-10: 0061990469
EAN: 9780061990465
ISBN: 9780061990465
Release Date: 12/01/2010
Release Year: 2010
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
Original Language: German
Book Title: On Truth and Untruth : Selected Writings
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Item Height: 0.4 in
Publication Year: 2010
Topic: General, History & Surveys / Modern
Genre: Philosophy, Self-Help
Item Weight: 3.9 Oz
Item Length: 7.1 in
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Item Width: 4.5 in
Book Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
