tailieunhanh - Sách Beyond Good and Evil

UPPOSING that Truth is a woman—what then? Is there not ground for suspecting that all philosophers, in so far as they have been dogmatists, have failed to understand women—that the terrible seriousness and clumsy importunity with which they have usually paid their addresses to Truth, have been unskilled and unseemly methods for winning a woman? Certainly she has never allowed herself to be won; and at present every kind of dogma stands with sad and discouraged mien—IF, indeed, it stands at all! For there are scoffers who maintain that it has fallen, that all dogma lies on the ground—nay. | BEyoND Good and Evil By Friedrich Nietzsche PREFACE SUPPOSING that Truth is a woman what then Is there not ground for suspecting that all philosophers in so far as they have been dogmatists have failed to understand women that the terrible seriousness and clumsy importunity with which they have usually paid their addresses to Truth have been unskilled and unseemly methods for winning a woman Certainly she has never allowed herself to be won and at present every kind of dogma stands with sad and discouraged mien IF indeed it stands at all For there are scoffers who maintain that it has fallen that all dogma lies on the ground nay more that it is at its last gasp. But to speak seriously there are good grounds for hoping that all dogmatizing in philosophy whatever solemn whatever conclusive and decided airs it has assumed may have been only a noble puerilism and tyronism and probably the time is at hand when it will be once and again understood WHAT has actually sufficed for the basis of such imposing and absolute philosophical edifices as the dogmatists have hitherto reared perhaps some popular superstition of immemorial time such as the soul-superstition which in the form of subject- and ego-superstition has not yet ceased doing mischief perhaps some play upon words a deception on the part of grammar or an audacious generalization of very restricted very personal very human all-too-human facts. 2 Beyond Good and Evil The philosophy of the dogmatists it is to be hoped was only a promise for thousands of years afterwards as was astrology in still earlier times in the service of which probably more labour gold acuteness and patience have been spent than on any actual science hitherto we owe to it and to its super- terrestrial pretensions in Asia and Egypt the grand style of architecture. It seems that in order to inscribe themselves upon the heart of humanity with everlasting claims all great things have first to wander about the earth as enormous and awe- inspiring .