That argument just doesn't shake me up at all. David Hume made it on a much deeper level than Nietzsche did a hundred years earlier. The pragmatists said much the same, only without all the chest-puffing and adolescent strutting about.
Parts of Also sprach Zarathustra are just embarrassing to read -- it reads like it was written by a bright 13-year-old going through his "I'm a genius" phase.
--- Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
That said,
> it's strange to me that you're not shaken up by N's
> argument that the
> self is a useful fiction--or even better, that truth
> is
>
> a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and
> anthropomorphisms--in
> short, a sum of human relations, [sic] which
> have been enhanced,
> transposed, and embellished poetically and
> rhetorically, and which
> after long use seem firm, canonical, and
> obligatory to a people:
> truths are illusions about which one has
> forgotten that this is what
> they are.
>
> I:'ll say this was a metaphorical 2 x 4 upside my
> head the first time I
> read it; I guess we get shaken up by different
> philosophical challenges!
>
> Miles
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