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Since the general culture shaping the taken-for-granted knowledge of the community of experts is one permeated by widespread notions of black and female inferiority, new knowledge claims that seem to violate these fundamental assumptions are likely viewed as anomalies
In this sentence the author argues that we tend to use stereotypes as valid representations to each other, without understanding how our imagination shapes these images.
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As in the stellar firmament there are sometimes two suns which determine the path of one planet, and in certain cases suns of different colours shine around a single planet, now with red light, now with green, and then simultaneously illumine and flood it with motley colours: so we modern men, owing to the complicated mechanism of our "firmament," are determined by DIFFERENT moralities; our actions shine alternately in different colours, and are seldom unequivocal—and there are often cases, also, in which our actions are MOTLEY-COLOURED.
Nietzsche argues that human action is guided by more than one system of morality. He explains this by comparing our actions to the nature of celestial bodies, whose tracks and illumination often comes from more than one sun. He states that it happens commonly that our actions are multi-colored, to mean that they reflect more than a single moral system or leaning. The basic idea in the argument is clearly that humans can be both evil and good because they do not rely on one value system in their actions. One system may make you virtuous, the other guide you towards evil. This tendency to combine both good and evil in our actions is what he terms as being multicolored.
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It cannot be effaced from a man's soul what his ancestors have preferably and most constantly done: whether they were perhaps diligent economizers attached to a desk and a cash-box, modest and citizen-like in their desires, modest also in their virtues; or whether they were accustomed to commanding from morning till night, fond of rude pleasures and probably of still ruder duties and responsibilities; or whether, finally, at one time or another, they have sacrificed old privileges of birth and possession, in order to live wholly for their faith—for their "God,"—as men of an inexorable and sensitive conscience, which blushes at every compromise
Nietzsche outlines the importance of culture. Culture can be understood to be what he terms as “the things our forefathers liked doing mostly or quite often”. His contention is that no matter what such routines were, unpleasant, interesting, subservient or “godly, we cannot disentangle ourselves from them. By this, he affirms that they cannot be “wiped from our souls”. The upshot of this argument is that our virtue systems are affected by culture or rather what our forefathers used to do. No matter what we learn from the environment, their actions and preferences are forever embedded in us.
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Beethoven is the intermediate event between an old mellow soul that is constantly breaking down, and a future over-young soul that is always COMING
In the this sentence, the author explains why the taste for Beethoven is likely to fade away. He sees it as an important European taste, the last of its kind taking after Mozart, but feels that it is not “formed” enough to last for years. On one side, it is compared to a “brittle old soul” always coming asunder. This means that it was some outdated form of art that too often failed to excite. On the other hand, it also appeared as too young and futuristic and as such always on a journey towards it self-actualization. Simply put, Nietzsche saw Beethoven as either too old to excite or too young to achieve its peak in the foreseeable future. It was either falling apart or in an endless journey towards completeness.
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That which causes philosophers to be regarded half-distrustfully and half-mockingly, is not the oft-repeated discovery how innocent they are—how often and easily they make mistakes and lose their way, in short, how childish and childlike they are,—but that there is not enough honest dealing with them, whereas they all raise a loud and virtuous outcry when the problem of truthfulness is even hinted at in the remotest manner
According to the sentence, all philosophers are not trusted despite coming up with significant studies and despite their innocent looks. They lack honesty that can make them trustworthy to people. Many may think philosophers are not trusted due to the young childlikeness characters, the truth is that they possess no positive attributes that can make them trusted.
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Having kept a sharp eye on philosophers, and having read between their lines long enough, I now say to myself that the greater part of conscious thinking must be counted among the instinctive functions, and it is so even in the case of philosophical thinking
According to this sentence, philosophical thoughts are the work of instincts. This shows that thought is a powerful tool which can be used to design ideas and concepts on real-life issues. That what the human mind perceives through instincts can become real through actualization.
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The Will to Truth, which is to tempt us to many a hazardous enterprise, the famous Truthfulness of which all philosophers have hitherto spoken with respect, what questions has this Will to Truth not laid before us!
This sentence means that the truth will always push a person into taking new risks, exploring new heights and trying out new things. The fact can prompt a person to do something never thought of, or that seems somewhat weird or crazy.
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