Pathos Of Truth

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Written in 1872, On The Pathos of Truth is a descriptive essay by Friedrich Nietzsche concerning his philosophies on fame, knowledge, art and seeking truth. Like many of his other works such as “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense” where he also touches on the subject of truth, and in “Beyond Good and Evil” were the main topic is morality correlates to his ideas on fame. using many metaphors and aphorisms with quick changes in topic to get across his point. He concludes the essay by describing why art is necessary along with knowledge.
Nietzsche begins the essay with a question about fame “Is fame actually nothing but the tastiest morsel of our self-love?” saying how fame is like a moment of illumination “it has been linked to the rarest of men and to their rarest moments. These are moments of sudden illumination” he then goes on using metaphors to describe the “illumination” and man’s relationship with fame. Believing that with fame people feel immortal because culture dictates that anything great will live on forever and the feeling of immortality will have people thinking the world is their’s to own “From now on humanity needs him.” “he believes himself to be immortal as the man of this moment.” Later in the essay he furthers his …show more content…

The final sentence states, “Art is more powerful than knowledge, because it desires life, whereas knowledge attains as its final goal only- annihilation.” This sentence ties in to the rest of the essay because for most of it he speaks of only knowledge or truth. Declaring that art is more powerful because it adds purpose compared to knowledge which is limited, it annihilates everything as art is varied and gives people a sense of

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