The Twilight of the Idols - "Reason" in Philosophy

from The Nietzsche Library · host Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In which the philosopher uncovers the peculiar blind spots of reason betraying the senses, revealing how the eternal idols of Being and truth are but mummified concepts, frozen against the ever-moving river of Becoming and change. With a sharp gaze, he dismantles the sanctity of metaphysics and its hollow dichotomy of true and apparent worlds, offering instead a lucid affirmation of life’s immediate reality unmarred by illusions of transcendence.

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