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Written by <a href='/community/profile/382-laurence/'>laurence</a>
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Thursday, 24 October 2002 21:07 |
Book: Truth & Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy, Bernard Williams
Article: Richard Rorty's Review
"...reading books like Israel's [The Modern Enlightenment"] helps us remember that those who grow passionate on one or the other side of arcane and seemingly pointless disputes are struggling with the question of what self-image it would be best for human beings to have. So it is with the dispute about truth that has been going on among the philosophy professors ever since the days of Nietzsche and James. That dispute boils down to the question of whether, in our pursuit of truth, we must answer only to our fellow human beings, or also to something non-human, such as the Way Things Really Are In Themselves.
Nietzsche thought the latter notion was a surrogate for God, and that we would be stronger, freer, better human beings if we could bring ourselves to dispense with all such surrogates: to stop wanting to have 'reality' or 'truth' on our side. "
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