Notice that here it's a question of why one kind of truth is accepted
rather than another, i.e. as a kind of weariness with the mundane world
that wants the "wrinkled veil of uncertainty" to bring it higher, to give
a dull life some enthusiasm. On another level Nietzsche accepts the
uncertainty of life, its mystery as a key to passionate living. Which
touches again upon those surface brushstrokes that treat us to the
painting of life. One thing that happens is a displacement of this very
idea of the "apparent" as a reflection or copy of something real, of a
Ding an sich, that as a philosophical decision effects all concepts of
fiction, mimesis, mythos, poesis, etc., in opposition to veracity. The
oddity is that this very reversal of priorities ( that permits him to
reject the concept of being as a mere fiction ) also puts into question
the thinkability of this age old opposition, leaving us in a strange
predicament when trying to decide what's "given" first of all. When
Nietzsche rules out the possibility of calling it simply the apparent
world ( once again ) all we hear as explanation is INCIPIT ZARATHUSTRA!
Strange.
Leonardo Raggo//\\//\\
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