I mean that when N. refers to 'our new language', he means modern scientific method - Science. — Wayfarer
Physiologists should think twice before deciding that an organic being's primary instinct (Trieb) is the instinct for self-preservation. A living being wants above all else to release its strength; life itself is the will to power, and self-preservation is only one of its indirect and most frequent consequences. Here, as everywhere, we must beware of superfluous teleological principles! And this is what the instinct for self-preservation is. — Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil 13
I guess that Nietzsche's understanding of Platonism is a standard one in which the realm of Ideas is to be pursued because it is not corrupt like the phenomenal world. It is the true realm where "things" are the way really are and this alone makes it good. — Πετροκότσυφας
...of all errors thus far, the most grievous, protracted and dangerous has been a dogmatist's error: Plato's invention of pure spirit and of transcendental goodness....Of course, in order to speak as he did about the spirit and the good, Plato had to set truth on its head and even deny perspectivity, that fundamental condition of all life... — Nietzsche: Preface to Beyond Good and Evil
It is nothing but a moral prejudice to consider truth more valuable than appearance; it is in fact the most poorly proven assumption in the world. We should admit at least this much: there would be no life at all if not on the basis of perspectivist assessments and apparentnesses... — Nietzsche
the only way that one would interpret Nietzsche as defending the "modern scientific method" or referring to it by saying "our new language" would be bad interpretation based on one's sensibilities. — "Πετροκότσυφας
"God is dead" was supposed to be about an historical event. — Mongrel
Nietzsche understood how immense the consequences of the rise of Christianity had been, and how immense the consequences of its decline would be as well, and had the intelligence to know he could not fall back on polite moral certitudes to which he no longer had any right. Just as the Christian revolution created a new sensibility by inverting many of the highest values of the pagan past, so the decline of Christianity, Nietzsche knew, portends another, perhaps equally catastrophic shift in moral and cultural consciousness. His famous fable in The Gay Science of the madman who announces God’s death is anything but a hymn of atheist triumphalism. In fact, the madman despairs of the mere atheists—those who merely do not believe—to whom he addresses his terrible proclamation. In their moral contentment, their ease of conscience, he sees an essential oafishness; they do not dread the death of God because they do not grasp that humanity’s heroic and insane act of repudiation has sponged away the horizon, torn down the heavens, left us with only the uncertain resources of our will with which to combat the infinity of meaninglessness that the universe now threatens to become. — David Bentley Hart
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