Tag Archives: Friedrich Nietzsche

The Lying Instinct: Nietzschean Neuroscience

Posted on January 21, 2015 by thepoetsglass
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A Simple Rhetorical Analysis: “On Truth and Lies…”

Posted on October 3, 2014 by thepoetsglass

Nietzsche’s Rhetoric and Man’s Worn Out Coins “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense” was written in 1873 by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. In my reading of this text, Nietzsche attempts to persuade his audience to see that intellect … Continue reading →

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Through the Crack in Consciousness: Nietzschean Metaphorizing

Posted on December 17, 2013 by thepoetsglass

Or, on the Philia of Human Being  Nietzsche creates metaphors with words and phrases the way the eyes create neural metaphors out of photons, and the way the brain creates cognitive metaphors out of neurochemical impulses received from optic nerves—phenomenological … Continue reading →

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Being Human: On the Metaphorizing Instinct

Posted on December 17, 2013 by thepoetsglass

“What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and; anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be … Continue reading →

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