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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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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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