Nietzsche, Psychology, & First Philosophy

摘要

(1) No one since Plato has written so much about reading, and no one since Rousseau so much about how to read himself. Because Nietzsche claims to have written splendid books, well arranged ones whose sequences teach, and since he maintains that a philosopher has no right to isolated insights, then no passage, section, or part can be understood without all the others and within the designed whole. [...] questions such as: can an agent do anything? how can someone deceive himself? and how can someone overcome himself? appear on the plains both insoluble and psychologically interesting, but obvious and irrelevant in the mountains where Nietzsche knows souls do act, readily accuses "the good and the just" of lying to themselves, and exhorts the noble to overcome themselves.