Nietzsche, Lou Salomé, and Paul Rée
https://uberfritz.blogspot.com/2011/08/whip-pic.html
Lou Salomé: Studied under Freud, the only person allowed to psychoanalyze Freud’s daughter/
showed the picture at various social gatherings, and cultivated a certain image of herself
Two bedrooms and a living room: Talk philosophy in the living room
Nietzsche proposes twice to Lou Salomé and is rejected. Moves on with Paul Rée.
Objections, digressions, gay mistrust, the delight in mockery are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
Self-deprecating nature, irony, in Nietzsche’s writing; the grace to laugh at oneself
Against stoicism:
Oh, you noble Stoics, what a fraud is in this phrase! Imagine something like nature, profligate with- out measure, indifferent without measure, without purpose and regard, without mercy and justice, fertile and barren and uncertain at the same time, think of indifference itself as power – how could you live according to this indifference? Living – isn’t that wanting specifically to be something other than this nature? Isn’t living assessing, preferring, being unfair, being limited, wanting to be different? And assuming your imperative to “live according to nature” basically amounts to “living according to life” – well how could you not? Why make a principle out of what you yourselves are and must be?
Nietzsche’s thought experiment: eternal recurrence, presented in the Gay Science, asking whether you would live life, over and over again, exactly as it is, for eternity (Gay Science)
^Might be the precursor to Camus’s Myth of Sisyphus
Plato’s divided line: from understanding (highest level) to imagination (lowest)
- reality:
- forms (it fromt bit)
- apperance
- everyday objects, things that we are familiar with
- shadows, reflections, photoshopped pictures, filters, ART (lowest level of perspective, highly individual perspective)
Plato think we cope by embracing the surface: platonic dream