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Originally Posted by Norsemaiden
Nile577 said
In the Intransigence of Religion thread.
This was in response to my view that when Nietzsche said (and this time I will quote it accurately) "Truth has never yet clung to the arm of an inflexible man", it was meant that it is important not to have convictions but to have a reasonably open mind that is always ready to change when better evidence comes along.
I would agree that Nietzsche dismissed the idea of any absolute objective and ultimate Truth, as do I, but did acknowledge subjective shared truth as existing in a useful sense.
Socrates, as represented by Plato, is a rationalist to a large extent, and Nietzsche said this was naive, and preferred empiricist idealism instead .
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To me, the truth of Nietzsche, is that of the void: the individual adrift in essentially in valueless, meaningless, nothingness and trying somehow to make something out of it--some meaning, etc.
SO I implicitly think of Nietzsche's truth to be that of the void, sorry.