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John Carroll Quotes: The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.
         

The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.


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Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.





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