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Nietzsche's Truth And Lies In A Nonmoral Sense

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Friedrich Nietzsche is a German philosopher who accepted the Christian view on will power and compassion for the weak (Wilkerson). In “ Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense” Nietzsche, describes that humans are on of the most arrogant, prideful and least truthful species. He describes how “how miserable, how shadowy and transient, how aimless and arbitrary the human intellect looks within nature.” (Nietzsche 1) While he may be right in some aspects of his essay, his logic is very inconsequent.
Nietzsche connects pride with lies, he says “The pride connected with knowing and sensing lies like a blinding fog over the eyes and senses of men, thus deceiving them concerning the value of existence.” ( Nietzsche 1) Here he is saying that we humans are so blinded by pride and lies that we are taken from the value of life. Pride is part of human nature, it is something that we will always have. Pride also is not something that is necessarily bad, pride has for the most part made humans have self respect for themselves and others. Without self “pride” how can anyone in the earth see when someone else is taking advantage of them. While pride can be something bad, it is something out of human …show more content…

He states here that there are so many languages, because man is blind to the “pure truth”, this is what makes language such a powerful thing. Language is emoting unique to each region of the world. Pure truth has a different meaning to each individual, while yes “pure truth” could have similar meanings to some, it all depends on your culture, language, and intellect. “pure truth” isn't something that was put in place for man to never question it. Every human being will see and has seen “pure nature” as differently as knowledge. Language is something that has united humans since the being of time. It doe make communication, which is a vital part of the human experience. But learning a language, makes us learn a culture, in which we see they “version” of the “pure

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