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Any philosophy experts out there? Need help please!!!

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Deadringer · 28/02/2023 22:00

Anyone study Nietzsche? Trying to make sense of this quote
'She (nature) throws away the keys, and woe to the calamitous curiosity which might peer through a crevice in the chamber of consciousness and discover that man is indifferent to his own ignorance and is resting on the pitiless and the greedy, the murderous and as it were, hanging in dreams on the back of a tiger.'
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shivermetimbers77 · 28/02/2023 22:02

What is the context OP? I feel like the paragraph before and the paragraph after may hold the key (if nature hasn’t thrown it away, that is..)

shivermetimbers77 · 28/02/2023 22:03

Sorry, just realised you may only have the quote not the text so my comment is not much help!

DevantMaJardin · 28/02/2023 22:04

He's saying that even if people knew the exploitation they depend on for their comfortable lives, they would be indifferent about it.

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DevantMaJardin · 28/02/2023 22:04

(and he's saying she, the observer, would be horrified at this realisation)

shivermetimbers77 · 28/02/2023 22:08

This may help OP: thepoetsglass.com/2013/12/17/being-human-on-the-metaphorizing-instinct/

AmandaClare · 28/02/2023 22:10

It’s from this essay pastehtml.com/view/crz4xb2u4.html

AmandaClare · 28/02/2023 22:10

On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

Deadringer · 28/02/2023 22:34

Thanks for the help, and the links. Cheers

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