Friedrich Nietzsche (1873), "Uber Wahrheit und Luge im aussermoralischen Sinn"
On 10/19/06, AMI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear Pen-L list, Hello - I'm new to the list, recommended by Arno of Norway. Info on me is at http://www.monetary.org What is the source reference to the Nietzsche quotation please? He appears to have understood coinage better than Adam Smith did, who wrote: "By the money price of goods…I understand always, the quantity of pure gold or silver for which they are sold, without any regard to denomination of the coin." (Wealth of Nations, 1st 15 pages or so) Smith's "definition" amounted to Nietzsche's described illusory state. Stephen Ami Sandwichman wrote: > Perhaps you're thinking of Nietzsche?: > > "What is truth? A moving army of metaphors, metonymies and > anthropomorphisms, in short a summa of human relationships that are > being poetically and rhetorically sublimated, transposed, and > beautified until, after long and repeated use, a people considers them > as solid, canonical, and unavoidable. Truths are illusions whose > illusionary nature has been forgotten, metaphors that have been used > up and have lost their imprint and that now operate as mere metal, no > longer as coins." > > On 10/19/06, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> who was it who argued that our thinking always (almost?) involves >> similes and metaphors? >> >> -- >> Jim Devine / "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely >> believe they are free." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe >> > > > -- > Sandwichman > >
-- Sandwichman
