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Tue 8 Jul, 2008 02:05 pm
In "Beyond good and evil", section 19 chapter 1:
does nietzsche think that we are free to act, or does he not? As far as I could gather, for Nietzsche there is this almost a paradoxical phenomenon in that we command and at the same we time we obey, "I am free "he" must obey", but we seem to cover this up with the concept "I". But does he think we are free or determined, or is he just attacking the old traditional notion of "the will", inasmuch as he thought that it was just another prejudice, and maybe because of the religious origins?
I don't know enough about Nietsche to comment on his specific meaning but one resolution of that issue was described by Gurdjieff who talked about lower anf higher "selves"....the normal (lower) self, which we erroneously call "I", is mechanical and "sleep walks" through life, but there is the possibility of reaching a higher self which has the ability "to do".
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