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Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil
Translaterd by byIan Johnstonof Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC
 
Prologue
Suppose truth is a woman, what then?Wouldn't we have good reason to suspectthat all philosophers, in so far as theywere dogmatists, had a poorunderstanding of women, that thedreadful seriousness and the awkwardpushiness which which they so far havehabitually approached truth were clumsyand inappropriate ways to win over awoman? It's clear that truth did not allowherself to be won over. And all forms of dogmatism nowadays are standing theredismayed and disheartened—if they're stillstanding at all! For there are mockers whoassert that they've collapsed, that alldogmatisms are lying on the floor, evenworse, that they're at death's door.Speaking seriously, there are goodreasons to hope that all dogmatism inphilosophy—no matter how solemnly,conclusively, and decisively it has
 
conducted itself, has been merely a nobleand rudimentary childish game, and thetime is perhaps very close at hand, whenpeople will understand just how little hassufficed again and again to provide thefoundation stones for the lofty andunconditional philosophical constructionsof the sort dogmatists have erected up tonow—any popular superstition fromunimaginably long ago (like thesuperstition of the soul, which today, inthe form of the superstition about thesubject and the ego, has still not stoppedstirring up mischief), perhaps some gamewith words, a seduction by somegrammatical construction, or a daringgeneralization from very narrow, verypersonal, very human, all-too-humanfacts. The philosophies of the dogmatists were,one hopes, only an involuntary promisewhich lasted for thousands of years, as theastrologers were in even earlier times. Intheir service, people expended more work,
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