(March 20, 2022 at 5:42 am)Belacqua Wrote: If you read early Nietzsche, before he got famous, his essays are just pretty much boilerplate German Romanticism. He is solidly in this tradition. When he begins to express original thoughts, though, they are very much along the lines of what I've been describing. The "real world" for him is chaos and far too horrifying to look at directly.
Nice analysis. For anyone interested in hearing more of Nietzsche's ideas about the world being too horrible to look at, check out this lecture:
