Waking to Wonder: Wittgenstein's Existential Investigations by Gordon C.F. Bearn

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Nothing that seemed valuable on the family hearth seems so now. But this is no longer the source of a feverish hatred. What others trouble [bekümmern] themselves about is no longer of any concern to the colder convalescent (HH I, P par. 4). Like a bird, the colder convalescent has "seen a tremendous number of things beneath him" (HH I, P par. 4). The convalescent looks down on what others worry about, < previous page page_7 If you like this book, buy it! next page > < previous page page_8 next page > Page 8 with tender contempt, with cosmic irony.

And theforeartists? (GS P par. 4) The adorers of forms, of tones, of words68 are neighbors to what is near; now they are cured of the sickness of nihilism. That cure manifests itself in their recognition that reason has limits, a recognition that can terrify. The profundity spoken of in this passage is the discovery of the final groundlessness of our reasonings. Those who have recovered are no < previous page page_30 If you like this book, buy it! next page > page_31 < previous page next page > Page 31 longer terrified of this discovery, they have the courage to stop at the surface, to love what was formerly scorned as mere appearance.

Nietzsche did turn away from the picture of tragedy presented in the 1872 edition of The Birth of Tragedy. He turned away from the use of a "primordial unity" (BT par. 1, 4, 6, pp. 37, 45, 55) as a "metaphysical comfort" (BT par. 7, 18, pp. 59, 109, 113 and BT SC par. 7, p. 26). He turned away from that particular solution to the existential < previous page page_28 If you like this book, buy it! next page > < previous page page_29 next page > Page 29 question of who to "make life possible and worth living" (BT par.

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